Harris Tweed, the romantic, iconic fabric that is still woven by hand in the Western Isles of Scotland, is undergoing a renaissance in the United States and has produced, for the first time in its history, a sports coat collection that is available at Middleburg's Highcliffe Clothiers.

Mark Metzger, owner of Highcliffe Clothiers is very excited about the new fabrics.

"The product is so full of color that it makes a unique tweed. The wearer is really distinctive – different from any other man in Hunt country." "We're delighted to take this Scottish product on board and really hope that the Harris Tweed story will become part of our history."

Harris Tweed has a romantic history that began in 1846 when The Dowager Countess of Dunmore, asked a crofter on the remote Isle of Harris to reproduce the Murray family tartan in tweed. The resultant fabric was like no other, dyed, spun, woven and entirely finished by hand. Lady Dunmore worked tirelessly to improve production and was able with her connections to establish a thriving market for the fabric in London and around the world.

Used by those in Queen Victoria's royal circle, sales of tweed began to boom. By the nineteenth century, Lady Dunmore's efforts had created the largest cottage industry in Great Britain and Harris Tweed was firmly established as a status symbol.

To this day the crofters on the remote island communities of the Western Isles of Scotland (Lewis, Harris, Uist and Barra) have woven by hand the magical cloth the world knows as Harris Tweed. In Gaelic this is Clò Mór - 'The Big Cloth'.