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A few weeks ago I was scouting round for some suitable tweed for a shooting jacket & I came across this 22oz cloth – ref K19, woven by the Islay Woollen Mill.

http://www.islaywoollenmill.co.uk/image ... /K/k19.gif

As usual, the image doesn’t fully capture the vitality of the cloth.

I thought it would make a handsome shooting jacket & I’ve now got a few meters of it awaiting an appointment with a tailor.

Since then, whilst searching for some overcoat information on the LL forums I came across this thread from 2005:

http://www.thelondonlounge.net/forum/vi ... f=36&t=223

The tweed shown came from the North Highland Tweed Company (NHTC), pattern No. 646. It seems to be identical to the Islay Mills K19 (visually anyway). As I understand it, the NHTC are no longer in business.

To satisfy my curiosity - does anyone know if the NHTC & Islay versions are really the same cloth? Perhaps the Islay Mill used to weave the No. 646 tweed for the NHTC?

Regards
Russell

Can not answer your question directly.I do ,however,have an odd jacket that i commissioned from the same range. It is very dark green with a red window pane.I love the thing and wear it every chance I get.

The 646 tweed came from the "Carrol" book of the now defunct Scottish mill, Hunter's of Brora. I imagine it is an Estate tweed of some kind and probably made by different weavers. I have seen a few versions of the cloth but my favorite is the Brora. NHTC, whose principal was a partner in a failed restart of Hunter's, sold off the last remaining stock from the fabled firm in 2005. A few LL members were fortunate to receive some of it.

Cheers

Michael