From the looms of Harris & Lewis — Winter Folio

Cloth woven from the peat, the bracken, the rust‑lichen on wet rock.

Six hundred islanders still pass the shuttle by hand across cottage looms above the moor. The yarn is dyed in iron pots set in turf, then carded together so every length is a quiet riot of colour pretending to be brown.

Field notesby the editors, written on the road from Tarbert to Stornoway

In this folio

I.A morning at the warping mill — the first thread of the boltP. 06 II.Crottle, dyer’s lichen — scraped from rock, boiled to rustP. 14 III.A weaver’s ledger, 1928 — from the parish of BerneraP. 22 IV.On the dignity of the herringbone — an essay in three twillsP. 30 V.Patterns of the Outer Isles — a folded plate, hand‑tippedP. 38