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the fabric that survived two world wars and is now slowly hunting you for sport
means A rough, woven woolen cloth, usually flecked with mixed colors, prized for warmth and durability and beloved of country jackets and academics.
from A happy accident: the word likely comes from 'tweel,' the Scots form of 'twill' (the diagonal weave). The popular story says a London merchant in the 1830s misread a Scottish invoice as 'tweed' — perhaps nudged by the River Tweed that runs through the wool-weaving Borders — and the misreading stuck. So the cloth may owe its name to bad handwriting and a convenient river.
- Origin myth
- Name born from a clerk misreading the Scots word tweel
- Bulletproof-ish
- Dense weave once shrugged off thorns, weather, and gunpowder
- Harris law
- Real Harris Tweed must be handwoven in islanders' own homes
- Spy uniform
- Academic elbow patches signal brains, not just frayed sleeves
- Smell test
- Genuine tweed smells faintly of wet sheep when damp
tweed mill hebrides — harris tweed weavers in scotland's outer hebrides, producing protected tweed since 1909
tweed river — river forming the england-scotland border, famous for salmon fishing since medieval times
donegal tweed — hand-woven tweed from county donegal, ireland, known for colorful nubs and flecks