- Origin
- Highland mill tradition
- Technique
- Twill hand-weaving
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Herringbone Twill
A broken twill that zigzags like a fish skeleton — the backbone of dense country tweeds.
Herringbone is a broken twill: the diagonal marches one way, then reverses, forming the skeleton of a fish. Woven by hand, the reversal point must be counted thread by thread — machines hide it, hands celebrate it.
It is the backbone of our Highland tweeds: dense, wind-cutting, and quietly patterned from across the room.
