Harris Tweed standard definition became essential. Groups of merchants in both Lewis and Harris applied to the Board of Trade for a registered trade mark. When this trade mark, the Orb, was eventually granted, the Board insisted that it should be granted to all the islands of the Outer Hebrides i.e. to Lewis, North and South Uist, Benbecula and Barra, as well as to Harris, the rationale for this decision being that the tweed was made in exactly the same way in all those islands. In 1909, after much negotiation and a degree of acrimony from merchants in Harris who felt that
Lewis and Harris Lewis and Harris Lewis and Harris () is a Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides. It is the largest island in Scotland and the third largest in the British Isles, The northern part of the island is called Lewis, the southern is Harris and both are frequently referred to as if they were separate islands. The boundary between Lewis and Harris is where the island narrows between Loch Resort (', opposite Scarp) on the west and Loch Seaforth (') on the east (north of the more obvious isthmus at Tarbert). The island does not have a one-word name in either