Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
Do you mean tartans and tweed? Tweed is rather less area specific than tartan, historically speaking. Whilst tartan is/was regarded as specifically Scottish with very specific Clan connections, since Victorian times anyway and the military before that (although that is not strictly true these days), tweed was a general term and the wool mills of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Gloucestershire and other parts of the UK did and still do, in places, produce tweed. Harris Tweed on the other hand is very specific to some of the Western Isles of Scotland.


Thanks, Jock. I understand a little better now.