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  • The history of tweed???s name is nearly as twisty as the multicolored thread its yarn is made from: some say it takes its name from the river Tweed in southern Scotland, others that it comes from ???tweel,??? the Scottish dialect for twill, which was then misread by a London merchant who thought that the L was a D on an apparently sloppily handwritten letter.
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