The Scottish makers of Harris Tweed are changing their ads for the classic cloth. As one company put it, we've had to de-Scottishify the image. Hiding the heritage of the tweed, traditionally made on Scotland's Isle of Harris, is a reaction to American threats to boycott Scottish businesses after the release of the Lockerbie bomber. So out with a model in a plaid tweed posed against Scotland's dramatic mountains. She'll now be inside on a sofa.

Harris Tweed Hebrides said it had to "de-Scottishify'' the product after feedback showed that sales in America could suffer. The company, whose chairman, Brian Wilson, a former government minister, believes the release of Abdelbaset al Megrahi, 57, was a mistake, has removed references to Scotland and Scottish imagery from its promotional material.

A manufacturer of Harris Tweed has dropped the word "Scottish" from its US marketing campaign amid fears of a consumer backlash over the release of the Lockerbie bomber, a report said Monday. …"We have been getting a lot of feedback and we have had to de-Scottishify the image of the brand. If he had not been released we would not have altered anything," he said.