FamouslyHawick

15/09/2025

Last week, Famously Hawick were delighted to welcome the first of the Traitors Escape to Scotland Sweepstake winners, Sandra and her family. Guide Stewart Tweed Valley Blogger showcased the fine collection of Cashmere, Tweed and Whisky manufacturers and producers of Famously Hawick. Safe to say Bennett had a ball and charmed everyone he met.

10/09/2025

A very important time in local history

We encourage everyone to visit The Great Tapestry of Scotland incredible story telling brought to life in tapestry

in 1513, an estimated 10,000 Scots died at the Battle of Flodden, the largest battle ever fought between Scotland and England. This battle saw one of the largest armies ever raised in Scotland and ended with the death of a King.

Discover the story of the battle and panel 40 of the Great Tapestry of Scotland here: www.greattapestryofscotland.com/the-battle-of-flodden

06/09/2025

05/09/2025

This Saturday at The Borders Distillery

And loads more too

WHISKY TASTING SESSIONS 🥃

A one-off tasting experience is available to experience as part of our Open Doors day celebrations. This is your opportunity to gather a layered understanding of our collection of Whisky blends and sample our range of Scotch, in an intimate tasting session, guided by the very people who make it.

Includes 4 drams, with an EXCLUSIVE sample of an Open Doors Day Distillers Blend. £30pp.

BOOK NOW: https://thebordersdistillery.com/product/open-doors-whisky-tasting/ or call us on 01450 374330

21/08/2025

Johnstons of Elgin have officially opened the wonderful extension to the mill in Hawick.

The development is so impressive, and we know it will play a massive role in the South of Scotland as a tourism destination as well as increasing manufacturing production for many years to come.

18/08/2025

Five premium Scottish producers
One famous Scottish town

The Cashmere, Tweed and Whisky Town

17/08/2025

From the ‘Home of Tweed’ and some of the best cashmere and knitwear producers in the world today to the first whisky distillery to open in the Scottish Borders since 1837. This special collection of weavers, knitters and distillers are all located between the four bridges of Hawick, and quite simply, nowhere else will you find such a wide range of premium Scottish products all made in the same town.

16/08/2025

From the impressive and innovative to the quirky and humorous, here are some ‘Did you know’ facts about these leading Famously Hawick producers which you may or may not know.

🥃The Borders Distillery will make the equivalent of 7 million bottles of single malt every year, all from locally grown barley.

Hawico Scotland first started production in 1874 and is one of the original manufacturers from the early days of the Industrial Revolution. 2024 marked 150 years of Hawico, still manufacturing knitwear at the same location today. Always made in their factory in Hawick.

Johnstons of Elgin were awarded a Royal Warrant by His Majesty the King as manufacturers of Estate Tweeds, Knitwear and Woven Accessories.

William Lockie's camelhair is 100% natural, undyed and breathable. No chemicals are used in the fibre processing. These fibres are extremely soft and warm and comes from the specially bred ‘Two Hu**ed Bactrian Camel’, which lives and roams the Gobi Desert. Because the Camelhair is undyed and natural, you can choose your garment in just one colour! 🐫

Lovat Mill “The Home of Tweed”. The product that we all recognise as Tweed has its origins in Commercial Road, Hawick, just a few yards away from where Lovat Mill stands today. The term Tweed was coined quite accidentally in 1826 as the result of a misread label on a shipment of woven wool ‘Tweels' (the Scots word for twill) from weaver William Watson of Commercial Road in Hawick to a London cloth merchant.

https://www.famouslyhawick.co.uk/post/did-you-know-famously-hawick

15/08/2025

Lovat Mill can design and develop exclusive product directly with customers. Whether purely aesthetic, through the use of Lovat Mills comprehensive yarn colour strings, or perhaps enhanced performance through the inclusion of Kevlar, Lycra yarns or Teflon and machine washable finishes, Lovat Mill create cloths appropriate to the demands of today’s international clothing and home furnishing industries.

The cloths are processed in “pieces” or “bolts”, ranging in length from 40 metres to 70 metres each, according to quality and the usual minimum requirement for an exclusive “made to order” cloth is 2 pieces per style, per order.

https://www.famouslyhawick.co.uk/lovatmill

14/08/2025

Famous Clans of the Scottish Borders

If your surname is Armstrong, Maxwell, Johnstone, Carruthers, Graham, Nixon, Bell, Kerr, Crozier, Robson, Turnbull, Irvine, Rutherford, Elliot, Moffat, Pringle, Kerr, Douglas or Scott, then your ancestry, just like the astronaut Neil Armstrong or the inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell, may well be traced back to the Border Reivers.

Still common in Hawick and throughout the Scottish Borders, these are just some of the Border Reiver family or clan names include which can also be found around the world today, all linked with Border Reivers in times gone by........https://www.famouslyhawick.co.uk/post/famous_clans_of_the_scottish_borders



Photocredits: Scotland Starts Here | The Borders Distillery

14/08/2025

Lovat Mill is Scotland’s premier weaver of Estate and Regimental Tweeds, currently proud to supply more than 150 private estates and military regiments throughout the UK.

Hawick Retail outlet open Monday to Friday 8.30 till 5pm
Online shop https://lovatmill.com/shop/

14/08/2025

Customer Notice

Please be aware that our retail store and coffee shop will be closed on Wednesday 20th August for a private function. We will be open as usual the following day. Thank you for your understanding.