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
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