Harris Tweed is a fine fabric from Scotland, and doing very well in China.
I had a suit made of a tweed, but the Scottish stuff is so hard to get I went to the more reliable Scabal out of Belgium. My Hong Kong tailor took my measurements and Scabal did the first cut and Fedexed the fabric to Hong Kong for fitting and construction. Whatever works.
Someday I'll catch a production run and have Scottish fabric sent to Hong Kong for a suit.
But more to the point on what China buys:
See that checklist? Same with small business exports from any country, including USA. Provenance is a fancy word for traceability, and eery country has its "best" items, and the best is always defined as the right quality.
Funny thing, even in my youth, anything top of the line was marked "export quality."
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Estimates from HM Revenue & Customs indicate that exports of textiles from Scotland to China are about to hit a record high, after sales in the first nine months in 2013 reached nearly £9.7m – outstripping the total for the previous year. Scotland sells more than two and a half times more textiles to China than it did a decade ago.
I had a suit made of a tweed, but the Scottish stuff is so hard to get I went to the more reliable Scabal out of Belgium. My Hong Kong tailor took my measurements and Scabal did the first cut and Fedexed the fabric to Hong Kong for fitting and construction. Whatever works.
Someday I'll catch a production run and have Scottish fabric sent to Hong Kong for a suit.
But more to the point on what China buys:
“It’s about provenance, British [identity] and quality,” said Brian Wilson, chairman of Harris Tweed Hebrides, and a business ambassador for the UK government. “If you can tick these three boxes in China then you’ve got a good chance.”
See that checklist? Same with small business exports from any country, including USA. Provenance is a fancy word for traceability, and eery country has its "best" items, and the best is always defined as the right quality.
Funny thing, even in my youth, anything top of the line was marked "export quality."
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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