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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1955.
SCIENCE
ENGINEERING
Secrets Of The
TRENDS IN SCOTTISH TWEEDS Briefcases
Increasing Demands For New Versions
But haute couture and tailor- Lak demands for these fabrics
The
leisure
terest, and, of the traditional
for wear blazers has helped to foster in- course, there is all aspect of
craze
and
per
the
What is it that makes Scottish fabrics so sought after? Briefly, it in the skill Inherited from the old colinge weavers who finally found thoir separate
cflcult and formed and country wear, RM 2porting made by tiro Isię of Bute weavers Battle of Culloden: This tartan coListence
year
the
Suitable
No
which makes attractive after
variety of colours and
noon
woman's tweed dresses), of sultings in interesting shades
natura
tweeds,
Sandwiches
Worker in a clothing factory.
Frankfurt, Nov. 6. One of the first things any visitor to Germi ....y. Boles in that almost every 15 man, woman’and chilid hero wORİUS to have a briefcase just about everywhere he goes. 25
smanufacturer ocal. Belglan cess is partly due to the Azeri-¡many omastries. Moreover, there, instance, recently received in- | financial loss; a
One nowspaper, ・ the Frank- So the world's
COTLAND, home of some about
demand Holland are among other can
for lightweight is no sign of its 'pópularity de quiries from Arable. The same would be left with quantities of
furter Neue Presse, carried out most
countries which buy Scottish fabrics. Lightweight tweeds clining. London, Paris, Berlin mill, by the way, is producing fabric which might not sell eise-
n spot check asking each brief- colourful wool clothe, iB Wools.
have now been made possible and New York couture houses | for
fashion market on where. In Europe and the Com-
case carrier what was in his or and this is a tribute to the shove featured 'fine-textured, enclent, unknown tarian. Amonwealth, for example, Ameris her briefcaso. creating increasing demands
In their new clase-surfaced tweeds in their fragment of this bloth was dis- can tastes are generally regarded
Here are some of the answers: for her goods by producing
weavers skill. guise many of the old tradi- collections Srpe HOME SORSOTES covered not long ago during as being too damboyant.
Student, aged 19. "As a "fashion tweeds" and inter-
tional fabrics, which used to be now. Some, such as the fabrics evenvations of the site of the
natter of fact I've got three To mention merely B few esting new versions of her
virtually restricted to
Our cat has examples of the fashion fabrics kittoga in mino, formed after the is expected to catch the fancy of famous traditional tweeds.
Just find itens and we can't --an industry the mucleus of what is toxtay for nearly all occasions.
now being produced in Scotland, war by the Marquess of Bute Americans, for it is believed to
H | Reep them all, I'va' taking woollen
there is wool crepe (available theso to my aunt," known as the Scottish
The same weavers have also returning Servicg personnel-be part of a..cont worn by a Others member of Bonnie Prince The chler centre of this wide.
Wea-
tweeds "fashion weigh only 61⁄2 ounces. brought new are due to several factors. Tois Galashiels, where the
ver Corporation dates back to tweeds"-on to the market, and weigh 9/10 ounces and these are Charlle's suite. gether with growing interest on
London's the attractiveness and sometimes particularly popular in America of 1600-the
High quality designers in the
goods are the part of
these and of ond Canada. rugged nature of creation of
Great Fire-and exclusive fabrics,
and such as lac and white, black aged 64, "In the traning when where
cat inferest 10 Aineri, was the lightweight traditionals have a stevidy there has been
Manufactures Corporation was ond
Scotlund can
these in provide
and mimosa), scarlet and other I go to work I carry my lunch | sandwiches in it. But right now ས
the heart founded exactly 111 years later, captured
of Parts Rugged or Smooth full
(for blazers I'm on my way home and 'a measure, Somie Scottish shades of doeskin successful exploitation of smooth
atural fabrics pro priced demand
ON high and other garments). in America and
featherweight
empty Kreut cloths in greys, blues and binck. in 1777. The scattered distribu- These fabrics have also been in tion of Scottish mills today is a
Salesman
"Sales £7 per yard, but this is shaded which seek
are 27. tueral, reminder that, even in pre-17th Canada,
of fabrics created and a host tay
means In European countries the de
general.
pamphlets. letters. my
ลป century times, weaving was
sometimes fancy, cloths
cloths. 15/20-02.
Iri view of their
with the aid of soft-toned yarns, An example disseminated throughout An-c
of
some mound is for how craft
quality. The latter might be called the glasses, keys and a spare hand- and
hard wearing
korchiet." Some are rugged tweeds; other interest the length and
of Scottish breadth
manufacturers arc Catering
Sailor, are wwooth textured, but the vast characterisien Scottish fabrles "heather" tweeds, for their rest-
45. "What on Scotland,
Americans and
are a constant ro- the are priced at a reasonable Iivel, Hul colours Canadians is in the production range of fabrics offered by The degree of Scotland's cur-
woollen
minder of the Scottish highlands. earth do you want to know for?
As a trade Scottisti
gives Such things as carly Paisley of "personal tweeds garments So
a matter of fact my working rent achievement in wool tex-
Britain
scope to all women's for ample
Added to these are the browns, trousers are in it, they have to shawls--originating from Inaianeit
knitted tiles may be judged from pro-
Then the paper I . specially in brought from Kashmir the woman who wants a tweed s
Men, 100, are using more
greens, blues, Lovets and other be washed. figures for shawls duction and export
lunch in, and a Glasgow troders-
Scottish cloths for suitings and
shades of the traditional tweeds wrapped my which suit
in. is individual. 1954 published by the National by early
In- beerbottle which was full of and the delightful tartans. Woollen
bear witness to the still of the deed, Scottish Initwear, parti-sports wear, but they rely chief- Association of Scottish
be coffee this morning." muy whose
cottage weavers. This influence members
culorly that from the borderly on the traditional tweeds for
Messenger in a publishing appreciated that tartan and Manufacturers,
12,000
of the East, introduced through "dalla people
lown" Hawick, has
ducing goods not manufactured fabrics gain much of their in yourself. Newspapers, a book of office, aged 30. "Here, seo fr employ
the shawls, is still present it risen to high fashion status in 3,813 JONISTLA.
The Scottish woollen Industry In the United States fabrics Uviduality from basic prin- the popular "Pine" motive and
North America-s development
nents of ancient origin but is up-lo-with that individual touch which ciple affecting their production; left over from lunch, an empty Crossword puzzles, sandwiches in the rich abstract colours of
which began with
For instance, is Tale in its idens. many Scottish wool fabrics,
production no is lacking in mass
two true colours can the traditional British twinset, having
bottle and some cigarettes." encountered amazing These
the unmistakable placed side by side. The yarn Hawick
more ALocess with
fabric for men's mark of the craftsman. Among must be woven so that a true the industry's do them are the novelty sports colour is beside a broken colour Collectare yards of which 8,478,157 Traditions and Aims dollars than any other textile blue blazers,
town of its size in the Unlied signers are now creating alter-checks which are so popular in or an offset of the same fomily Kingdom; I has earned £10
are turning to America at present. £10 natives. They million in dollars in five years, the colourful cloths which have
other many their industry famous. and the popularity of its goour made
favourites across Here again, the However, although the Industry are not designed specifically for Steeped in History Is it creasing. industry has grown from a col-has a reasonably good productive that market, to these figures In addition
enerstage Industry in which house capacity, expansion is necessary
American son the of 1 is quality, plus attractiveness big output there was the
in-
mills if manufacturers tends wives gathered wool from local ins wearability, which Shetland tweed, for which
long Indeed, its gures are not avail- dividual
total
lable to drop even good lines at able, and the production
Harris
short notice and take up others, of 5,150,307 yards of
It is, therefore, a great risk to of twood,
per cent over 10
cater solely for the dollar market. salons which was exported the trulk
A sudden heavy cancellation of being to dollar countries.
for orders would medn
I not prepaid a booking fo of 50 pente la charged.
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(In-
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Scottish knitwear not include inanufacturers, or the producers of Harris and Shetland tweeds). Production
1,922 totalled 20,791.
stampa upwards. South
yurda went Square
£10 million Valued at about these
Were un all-time exports
overseas.
Scotland's weavers have tradi- and aims which are (loos
ystalliset in the N.A.S.W.M. motto "Keep the Quality Up"
have
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Steeped in history and trudi
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