This color educational film from the Crown Film Unit is about Hawick, Scotland and the sweaters made there. Hawick is the largest of the border towns and internationally and famous for its quality knitwear. Copyright 1948.
Opening titles: Queen O The Border (:09). Map of Scotland (:31). Hawick, Scotland. A statue of a man holding a flag on a horse (:41). Hawick buildings (1:05). Countryside of Hawick (1:14). Horses on a hillside (1:37). Captured flag from an old war versus the English is paraded around once a year via horseback; The Priory flag was captured by the Hawick Callants, a group of youths who bravely defended the Scottish Borders town (2:07). People cheer and watch a recreation (2:27). Down a street in Hawick as people celebrate (2:51). Hosiery of high quality is made by a laborer (3:19). Lambs wool yarn (3:41). Men make knitwear (3:57). Hawick is known for their knitwear (4:15). Machine assist with knitwear (4:40). Women make knitwear by hand (5:16). Women knit sweaters (5:47). Foam bath pounds out oil from the yarn (6:07). A man stretches the sweaters (6:45). Women press a sweater (7:22). Various mens and womens sweaters (7:46). Scottish people perform a traditional dance (8:01). Scottish people sing and chant (8:22). Bagpipes are played as people dance (8:30). Towns colors tied onto the town’s memorial statue (9:00). End credits (9:42).
Hawick is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is in the heart of Teviotdale. Hawick’s architecture is distinctive in that it has many sandstone buildings with slate roofs. The town is at the confluence of the Slitrig Water with the River Teviot. Luxury cashmere and merino wool knitwear companies William Lockie, Hawick Cashmere, Hawick Knitwear, Johnstons of Elgin, Lyle & Scott, Peter Scott, Pringle of Scotland, and Scott and Charters, have all operated knitting factories and manufacturing plants in Hawick in the past (and some currently).
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