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Tartan also enjoyed a fashionable period around this time, thanks again in part to Scott and the favouring of it by the royal family. 
Pair of Tweed Trousers, 1950s
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James Locke, a Scot based in London, visited Galashiels and sold the cloth to well to do Londoners. He is credited with giving the Border cloth the name ‘tweed’. Legend has it that James Locke invented the name after he misread the label on the package of ‘tweel’ (twill) and wrote back asking for ‘tweed’.
However, apart from the fact that Locke would have been, as a tailor, familiar with the term tweel, he was a Scot and had visited Gala and would have known about the River Tweed. It is probable that his coining of the name tweed was more about clever marketing, cashing in on the fashion for all things to do with Walter Scott
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