Because of the cost of fuel, we sometimes find old people sitting by their fire wearing tweed coats.
Now take a tweed manufacturer, who has a turnover of tweed cloth, value £250,000, and his electricity bill is £2,300.
The second trade is locally called the "shoddy" trade, or working men's tweed.
Often, elderly ladies in well-cut but well-worn tweed suits would tell me of their difficulties.
When the oil runs out, we shall be left with selling whisky, tweed and tourism.
There are mills, particularly in the tweed section and spinning section of the industry, which have a considerable amount of under-full employment.
Then he collects the suit lengths and the tweed, which he then takes to the mill.
The machines will count for a reduction in duty but not the shop, the tweed or the yarn.
