Light engineering, service industries, textiles and woollens are the main generators of economic wealth with farming dominant in the south.

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But whatever follows would have to work hard to top Karl Lagerfeld's collection, paying tribute to the craftsmanship behind Scottish tweed, woollens and cashmere.

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She said while some grandmothers still fitted the hand-knitting stereotype they now take their woollens to the high street and sell it at high prices.

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Lagerfeld toyed with cross-dressing gothic-Jacobite variations on the kilt, with sporran bags and hip-flasks, riffing on Celtic pewter and pearls, baggy sweaters and woollens fit to adorn an ice queen on her wedding day.

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