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 English or Scottish Gaelic, and is referred to as 'Lewis and Harris', 'Lewis with Harris', 'Harris with Lewis' etc. Rarely used is the collective name of "the Long Island" (), although that epithet is sometimes applied to the entire Outer Hebrides, including the Uists and Barra. Most of Harris is very hilly, with more than thirty peaks above ; the highest peak, Clisham, is a Corbett. It has an area of – slightly under 1% of the area of Great Britain. It is from the nearest point of the mainland, from which it is separated by the Minch. Lewis is