Donegal tweed manufactured for centuries it took on its modern form in the 1880s, largely due to the pioneering work of English philanthropist Alice Rowland Hart. While the weavers in County Donegal produce a number of different tweed fabrics, including herringbone and check patterns, the area is best known for a plain-weave cloth of differently-coloured warp and weft, with small pieces of yarn in various colours woven in at irregular intervals to produce a heathered effect. Such fabric is often labelled as "donegal" (with a lowercase "d") regardless of its provenance. Along with Harris Tweed manufactured in the Scottish Highlands, Donegal is
South Lewis, Harris and North Uist National Scenic Area of Lochmaddy (an anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic "Loch nam Madadh") is a ferry terminal, and a harbour for the creel fishing and is used for salmon farms. There are four Special Protection Areas (SPA) and five Special Areas of Conservation (SAC), within or overlapping with the NSA. The areas protected by these two Natura 2000 designations overlap, with four sites sharing both designations (although the precise borders differ to some extent). South Lewis, Harris and North Uist National Scenic Area South Lewis, Harris and North Uist is a large national scenic area (NSA) in the Western Isles of Scotland.