Harris Tweed the trade mark should have been granted exclusively to Harris, the Orb Trade Mark was granted. The Harris Tweed Association, a voluntary body, was formed to protect both the use of the Orb Trade Mark and to protect the use of the name ‘Harris Tweed’ from imitations. The original definition attached to the Orb Trade Mark stated that: Harris Tweed means a tweed, hand-spun, hand-woven and dyed by the crofters and cottars in the Outer Hebrides. In 1993, a new statutory body to guard the Orb Trade Mark, the Harris Tweed Authority, replaced the original Harris Tweed Association. Also in
Bad Orb century. Town privileges included the minting of a coin, the "Orber Hälbling" ("half-Pfennig of Orb"). The remains of the town wall that still exist today also originate from this time. The historic trading route (and modern day long-distance hiking trail) "Eselsweg" ("donkey trail") that runs to Großheubach in the district of Miltenberg from Schlüchtern originates at Bad Orb. In the past, this route was used to transport salt to the Main. The extraction of salt from several salt springs formed the town. There were eleven "Salinen" (one of which has been renovated and preserved), sometimes called "thorn houses" or "salt