ABSTRACT
The woollen industry is fairly widely scattered throughout Scotland. Only one of the five main areas in which the industry is located can be described as an industrial area, viz. the western section. In the other four main districts the mills are situated in small country towns or villages in which agriculture is the only other important industry. The five main areas are: (1) the south-east corner of Scotland, popularly known as the Borders, and comprising a rough square marked by Jedburgh on the south-east, Earlston on the north-east, Peebles on the north-west, and Langholm on the southwest, and including in its area the valley of the Tweed and its tributaries; (2) the Hillfoots area at the foot of the Ochil Hills in which the principal manufacturing centres are Alloa, Tillicoultry and Alva; (3) the northern branch which has important units in Inverness, Elgin, Keith and Aberdeen; (4) the homespun section of the Outer Hebrides; and (5) the western section in which the mills are situated mainly in Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Ayrshire.
