Islay Mill - NHTC tweed

[Russell]

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

[rodes]

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.

[alden]

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