Weaving the Geographies of Harris Tweed: An ethnography of the labour, technologies and branding of life on the loom

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Weaving the Geographies of Harris Tweed: An ethnography of the labour, technologies and branding of life on the loom

Harris Tweed is a cloth defined through its specific geography of production; it is a cloth handwoven by islanders at their homes in the Outer Hebrides. It is this evocative and romantically imagined craft working that is central to its promotion and appeal, and is central to the branded storytellin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Phelan, Kieran
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2021
Subjects:	Harris tweed Outer Hebrides weaving weavers
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/66909/

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