Dozens of jobs are under threat at a Harris Tweed mill on the Isle of Lewis.

Carloway Mill faces calling in administrators within days, threatening the livelihoods of 27 employees.

Its owners said operating costs have risen by more than 30% while the price of tweed has fallen by 10%.

Carloway is the smallest of three mills producing Harris Tweed, an industry which employs around 380 people in the Western Isles.

At its height in in the mid-1960s, around 1200 weavers worked to produce seven million metres of cloth every year.

Sales fell into decline in the 1980s, partly due to cheaply mass-produced imitation fabrics, and the industry came dangerously close to disaster.

Harris Tweed has enjoyed a revival in recent years as a luxury fashion brand and is the only fabric in the world protected by its own act of parliament, which means it can only be produced in the Hebrides.