Harris Tweed: Video.

Above is a video about he history of the famous cloth, which is named after the island which it is from, Harris.

The cloth can trace its history back to way before but came to prominence in 1846 when Lady Dunmore when she had the Murray copied by Harris weavers in tweed, This proved sucessful that Lady Dunmore dedicated much of her time to market the cloth and soon the upper reaches of society was wearing this hand made cloth from the outer reaches of Scotland.