Redhouses Woolen Mill, Islay. Dye-room, showing on South wall (left to right) electric dyeing-vat, soap boiler, press-plate oven, copper dyeing-vat (with reeling frame over) and cast-iron dyeing vat. ...
SC 344716
Description Redhouses Woolen Mill, Islay. Dye-room, showing on South wall (left to right) electric dyeing-vat, soap boiler, press-plate oven, copper dyeing-vat (with reeling frame over) and cast-iron dyeing vat. In right foreground are washing-tubs with manual plunger and two dripping frames (scrays) for drip-drying the hanks.
Catalogue Number SC 344716
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 9620
Scope and Content Dye-house woollen mill at Bridgend, Islay The woollen mill was built in 1883 on the east bank of the River Sorn which drove the waterwheel providing power for the machinery. It is typical of smaller country factories of the time. Finished yarn was washed and dyed in the dye-house. The small furnaces were used both to heat water for washing the yarn, and also to boil the yarn to fix the colour once it had been dyed. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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