Hunter's Tweed - a long tradition

I have been sent a beautiful roll of tweed by Hunter's Tweed and intend to have it made up into a jacket when I have found a tailor. I hope, in due course, to describe the tailoring process here on Grey Fox.

My Hunter's Tweed Kildary Elfin tweed

The rise in popularity of tweed and the resurgence of the country look will have been obvious to anyone with even a passing interest in men's fashions. Menswear shows at London Collections: Men earlier this year and the Savile Row event at Spencer House were a riot of tweed, brogues, plus fours, thick woolly socks and even a gun dog.

Such style is not new and there are people around who have been supplying this look for years, rather than as a response to a passing fashion. Hunter's Tweed is one of these; a family-run business founded in Scotland in 1901, which supplied tweeds to Scottish sporting estates, providing cloths unique to each. Here they were worked hard by lairds, keepers, stalkers and ghillies, earning such respect through their durability that the company became known as the 'King of Tweeds'.

What better tradition to tap into during an era which is seeing the revival of popularity of such products? The rise in its popularity masks the purely practical origins of tweed. As someone who wears the fabric a lot, I know how warm, weatherproof and comfortable it is to wear. Added to this is its durability and, above all for sporting purposes, its natural camouflage properties.

Hunter's Tweed use the cloth for purposes other than clothes - as the images below illustrate. For more information see Hunter's Tweed's website here.

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