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Ashfield Print Works, interior View showing dye mixing pans

SC 457058

Description Ashfield Print Works, interior View showing dye mixing pans

Date 12/1975

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 457058

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 heated copper pans used for preparing dyestuffs for use in the printing machines. Similar pans were used in the baking and confectionery trades. This works closed at the end of 1975. It was the last textile-printing works in Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H75/85/6

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/457058

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Collection Level (551 147) Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

> Item Level (SC 457058) Ashfield Print Works, interior View showing dye mixing pans

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Attribution: © Copyright: HES. (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume).

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