River Tweed
— — the salmon river the border could not divide.
Not only on a wall.
“A river that runs about 156 kilometres from Tweed's Well in the Lowther Hills east through the Scottish Borders, past Peebles and Melrose and Kelso, then forms part of the boundary with England before emptying at Berwick-upon-Tweed. One of the great Atlantic salmon rivers. The Junction Pool at Kelso, where the Teviot joins, is among the most storied beats in the world. from the studio
River Tweed, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
The Tweed rises at Tweed's Well on the Lowther Hills in southern Scotland and flows roughly 156 kilometres east to the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Its catchment drains about 5,000 square kilometres of the Scottish Borders and northern Northumberland, taking in the Teviot, the Ettrick, and the Whiteadder. The last 27 kilometres form part of the boundary between Scotland and England. The river is administered by the River Tweed Commission under the Scotland Act 1998.
The Tweed is one of the four great salmon rivers of Scotland, recording rod catches of more than 14,000 salmon and grilse in good seasons. The autumn run is the largest, with fish moving up through Coldstream and Kelso from late August into November. The Junction Pool below the bridge at Kelso, where the Teviot joins the Tweed, is the most storied beat on the river. Brown trout, sea trout, and grayling round out a fishery managed since the 1807 Tweed Fisheries Act.
The Tweed salmon season runs from 1 February to 30 November under the River Tweed Commission's bylaws, with the famed autumn run building from late August. The middle months bring sea trout into the lower river around Norham and the Till mouth. The Borders Abbeys Way and St Cuthbert's Way trace the river through Melrose, Dryburgh, and Kelso, where the beech and birch on the banks turn copper through October and into the first week of November.