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    Shepherdess

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    “I wear tweed all year-round, in all weathers,”<br /> Her favourite workwear is a three-piece Herdwick suit – the light, natural hues a contrast to the traditional dark colours once associated with tweed: “I like fitted jackets and short skirts for walking, teamed with my own range of Herdwick socks, which never fall down.”
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    Shepherdess

    Walking is a major part of a hill farmers life; seeking a means to keep the farm afloat Alison took a Mountain Guide course to gain some much needed extra income. Part of the training course took her to the Western Isles, to Harris and Lewis.

    Alison’s eye for nature’s palette and the wondrous skills of weavers she met combined with her ability to design and make her own clothes led inexorably to walkers asking where they could buy her designs.

    Shepherdess was born. On a kitchen table at the farm.

    “Defender of the Wool”

    “Why not make your own?” said Donald John, Master Weaver, Luskentyre Isle of Harris to the ever attentive Alison on one of her many visits to his weaving shed. Alison had complained that fleece prices were so low they were being burnt and she didn’t want to see hers go the same way.

    shepherdess
    “I wear tweed all year-round, in all weathers,”<br /> Her favourite workwear is a three-piece Herdwick suit – the light, natural hues a contrast to the traditional dark colours once associated with tweed: “I like fitted jackets and short skirts for walking, teamed with my own range of Herdwick socks, which never fall down.”
    Alison enthuses. “I couldn’t be a shepherdess if I wasn’t a romantic at heart. Of course I have my head in the clouds. On bleak, cold days on a wet mountain I remember my time behind a desk at the Inland Revenue in the south of England, and appreciate my surroundings here all the more.”
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