This jacket is another fabric with ‘bumps’.
The base fabric is Harris Tweed wool. Harris Tweed is not Harrisville. Two completely different yarns.
Harris Tweed is a singles, tightly twisted yarn which makes a sturdy cloth. To this base I added stripes of 2/20 mercerized cotton. There are two wefts – the Harris Tweed, and a 2/20 mercerized cotton which created separate ‘ribbons’ on the surface of the Harris Tweed that are a true double weave.
The cotton woven into the Harris Tweed interferred with the fulling and I had to work very hard to get the cloth to full as much as I wanted to make this fabric work for a jacket.
My friend Darlene (who sewed this and many other garments for me) made the jacket reversible. It has a hood and large shawl collar. The model received this jacket as payment for the modelling job.