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Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Craft co-operative lobbies Scottish government - with a humpty!

The Harris Tweed Artisans Co-operative has been busy lobbying the Scottish Government. But rather than producing dry policy papers and reports, the co-operative presented the First Minister Alex Salmond with a caricature humpty!

Nikki, a member of the co-operative, can be seen here presenting the humpty to the First Minister. Note: the real Alex Salmon is the one to top of the picture.

The Harris Tweed Artisans Co-operative was formed in February when 10 businesses joined together with the aim of working together to promote and market the unique and diverse Harris Tweed products that they each design and produce.

It is the first co-operative to bring together people who work with tweed regardless of what type of products they are producing and represents a new approach to the marketing and sale of Harris Tweed products.

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