Ashfield Print Works, interior View showing printing machines
SC 457051
Description Ashfield Print Works, interior View showing printing machines
Date 12/1975
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 457051
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Ashfield Silk Dyeing Works, Perthshire This complex both dyed and printed silk and artificial silk fabrics, and was housed in a group of single-storey sandstone rubble buildings, some with roof-ridge ventilators. There was an associated factory village. This view shows the colour end of a silk printing machine. The application of colour took place at the front of the machine, the rest of it being used to dry the printed cloth. This works closed at the end of 1975. It was the last textile-printing works in Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H75/84/15
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