Photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert ventured to Harris and Lewis over three decades ago to capture images of the local tweed production. The photographs from his trip were shared with the public in one of the 1992 issues of a Scottish Sunday newspaper magazine. Now we can enjoy them again.
“I was accompanying a very talented writer and journalist Euan Ferguson, who sadly is no longer with us,” says Mr Sutton-Hibbert. “We crisscrossed the islands meeting crofters and those in the tweed industry, gaining insight into the then-current challenges they faced in marketing and selling their world-renowned product.”
The recently published zine contains 36 black and white photographs taken in Harris and Lewis, including a portrait of Marion Campbell, BEM at home, of Coinneach Campbell weaving in Bragar, Alastair Pout by his loom, and images from within the mills of Kenneth Macleod, Shawbost Ltd and Kenneth Mackenzie Ltd in Stornoway. The images have not been republished since 1992, until now.
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