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 & Harris Football Association Lewis & Harris Football Association The Lewis & Harris Football Association is a football association which controls the Lewis & Harris League is the annual football league contested between clubs from Lewis and Harris, an island off Great Britain in Scotland. Like several other northern amateur leagues, the competition takes place in a summer calendar rather than the traditional winter program. Lewis contributes eight clubs to the league and Harris contributes one. The league is fully licensed with the Scottish Amateur Football Association and each club competes in the Highland Amateur Cup annually, with member clubs winning the cup eight