Around 1830, a London merchant received a letter from a Hawick firm about some tweels. A traditional story has the name coming about almost by chance. The original name of the cloth was tweel Scots for twill, it being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern.
The original definition attached to the Orb Trade Mark stated that: "Harris Tweed means a tweed, hand-spun, hand-woven and dyed by the crofters in the Outer Hebrides." Authentic Harris Tweed ® is issued with the Harris Tweed ® Orb Certification Mark, the United Kingdom's oldest registered trademark, after inspection by the Harris Tweed Authority, the industry's governing body. which strictly outlines the conditions in which the cloth can genuinely be made. Harris Tweed® is protected by the Harris Tweed ® Act of Parliament 1993. Harris Tweed® is a cloth that has been handwoven by islanders at their homes in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, finished in the Outer Hebrides, and made from pure virgin wool dyed and spun in the Outer Hebrides.
Originally woven for home use and for protection from the colder climes of the highlands of Scotland. For centuries the islanders of Lewis and Harris, the Uists, Benbecula and Barra have woven cloth by hand calling it Clò Mór in the original Gaelic or 'The big cloth'.
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