Galashiels Fabric--Any Info?

I found a nice length of suiting fabric (a little over 3 yards at 60" wide) at my local second-hand shop for a very low price. Stamped on the wrong side near the selvedge is an indistinct logo inside an oval with the word "Galashiels". A little Googling revealed that Galashiels is a town in Scotland, and they do have a school of textiles and design there. I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about fabrics with this type of logo on it. Did it come from this school? Is there a shop in Galashiels that routinely stamps their logo on fabrics purchased there?

I've done a burn test on the fabric and think it may be rayon. The results were a little inconclusive, but the burned fabric smells a lot like burned wood, and since rayon is a wood product, that seems reasonable.

How this fabric turned up in a Michigan second-hand store will forever be a mystery, but can anyone enlighten me about it's possible source? I'm just curious about its history. Thank you.

Donna G. Michigan's Upper Peninsula

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Donna Gennick
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It won't be the shop, it'll be the weavers who have labeled the fabric. The school itself probably gets local weavers to weave the bits that the students design. It may be part of a test weave: quite often the designers and weavers will set up and do a short run (15m or so) of a new design to sell to the prospective customers. If these bits are not taken up by the buyers of yardage for people like Marks & Spencer, Dacks, Next, etc. they just sell off the yardage in 3m dress lengths in the factory shop. Your bit may well have been taken home as a suvenir from a holiday. The visitors often like to buy a bit of something unique like this. I've done it myself: made a fantastic jacket out of it that always got loads of admiration and was unique. :)

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Kate XXXXXX

Thanks, Kate. I wondered if you would know. Thank you for sharing.

D> D>> I found a nice length of suiting fabric (a little over 3 yards at 60"

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Donna Gennick

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