thetailoredhound
thetailoredhound
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Bio
I’m an experienced self-taught seamstress with an eye for design and a love of beautiful fabrics, especially Harris Tweed. I'm also a self taught artist. And I’m very happy that I am. It means that I’ve been lucky enough to develop my own unique style and way of working. I don't work from patterns, or even use the 'correct' tools of the trade sometimes, but everything I do - whether it involves fabrics or pastels, oils or silk paints - is created with passion. I do what I do because I love doing it.
Why Harris Tweed? not an easy question to answer, but here goes the short version...
Harris Tweed is unique. It’s even defined by law in the Harris Tweed Act of 1993 which says that it must be: ‘Handwoven by the islanders at their homes in the Outer Hebrides, finished in the Outer Hebrides, and made from pure virgin wool dyed and spun in the Outer Hebrides.’
Harris Tweed is living history and tradition that you can feel and wear. And because it’s not mass-produced in a factory, it costs a bit more than some other materials.
Authentic Harris Tweed is identified by the ‘Royal Orb’ mark and the Harris Tweed Authority will only issue the mark to articles they say are ‘genuinely deserving of our historic Orb’. The Orb is a mark of the finest quality and, for generations, Harris Tweed has been a material much loved by designers and fashion houses such as Ralph Lauren, Coco Chanel, Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood. Celebrities who are known to dote on Harris Tweed include Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Tinie Tempah. It’s always been hugely popular among the Royal Family and even among Time Lords; Matt Smith’s Doctor Who wore a Harris Tweed jacket when saving the universe!
It’s a fabric that smacks of quality and demands skilled hands to work with it; that’s why the Authority makes a point of checking products before they allow them to bear the Harris Tweed label. This means that working with Harris Tweed is careful and painstaking, ensuring that every cut, every stitch, is as perfect as it can be.
If you want something that is cheaply produced, knowing that millions of others own exactly the same object then you’d expect not to pay very much for it. But if you want a beautiful, unique object, hand-made to the highest quality and made using a classic, hard-wearing material that you’ll treasure for years, you may have to pay a little more.
A Harris Tweed purse for the price of a pizza? I know which one I’d go for!
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