Yesterday there was a program on TV about Savile Row - about the gentlemen's outfitters there.

One of the men they followed went to the isle of Harris to buy tweed, and it was explained that the industry had been taken over and 'streamlined' so that there was no source of yarn from the original mill other than for the manufacture of a very limited range of tweeds.

I supose that the Harris tweed, being a narrow width, is not all that economical as a kilt fabric - but I could almost hope that someone might set up to weave kilt lengths of tweed material and create a new industry elsewhere.