30 September 2009
Had a chat on the phone with Donald John Mackay of the Luskentyre Harris Tweed Company this evening. The weather has been good today in Luskentyre but the forecast is ‘not too good at all’ .
The good news is: “Harris Tweed is on the way up …and it’s no thanks to Mr Haggas… it’s not the bloody doom and gloom as on that last ‘Tweed’ programme,” (BBC4 ‘Tweed’) he told me. “I’m weaving a huge order of Harris Tweed for the special commemorative Clarks Desert Boots (see Monica’s separate Page) – celebrating 60 years of the boots…we’ve got an ongoing order for over 5000 metres. It’s too big an order to do it all myself so I’ve got help in producing it. And the boots are being made up in Vietnam.”
DJ also has another big order for Harris Tweed for another style of Clarks boots in the ‘Lumberjack’ design, red and black and green and black, which are being made for the Japanese market.
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