Tweed deal is in the bag

ONE of the UK's top handbag makers has struck a deal with a Harris Tweed mill in the Outer Hebrides to produce the handmade cloth in its own unique design for a premium range of bags.

Radley & Co has secured its own tweed which is being produced at the Carloway Mill of Harris Tweed Textiles, based on the west of the Isle of Lewis.

Radley senior designer Ben Patton said: "Radley is a British company so it's nice to link up with a British product we can use. Harris Tweed is handmade, like our bags, so it is a very good fit for us. We make bags that will last many years and Harris Tweed is like that."

Radley supplies the major multiples and quality independent handbag stores as well as its own chain of stores and online shop. It has grown in four years from one store in London to 15 in the UK and one in New York.