Two negatives make a positive. Two mistakes resulted in a catchy name for a fabric.

Yes! Two simple spelling mistakes gave the Scottish fabric a lovely and lasting name!

A Scottish weaver offered a London merchant James Locke some twilled fabric-diagonally ribbed-cloth in

1832. In his letter he had spelled the word twilled in its Scottish form “Tweeled.”

James Locke misread the word as “Tweed!” And the catchy name stuck on!