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 Irene life, but this turns out to be impossible as they are struck with boredom. Irene returns to the bank in secret. Lewis has an affair, which Irene immediately discovers. The couple break up. Although no longer lovers, Lewis and Irene continue their relationship as business partners. The book was originally published in 1924 through éditions Grasset. An English translation by Vyvyan Holland was published in 1925. Isabel Paterson wrote in "The Bookman": "The titular figures of Paul Morand's "Lewis and Irene" are symbols rather than types. They resemble the angularized conventions of modern painting, which returns to the archaic in