Huntingtowerfield, Bleach and Dye Works, Interior View looking N showing centre section of Dalglish clip stenter, 35' x 90'' goods

Description Huntingtowerfield, Bleach and Dye Works, Interior View looking N showing centre section of Dalglish clip stenter, 35' x 90'' goods

Date 25/8/1982

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

Catalogue Number SC 574105

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Huntingtowerfield Bleach and Dyeworks, Almondbank, Perthshire (Perth and Kinross council area) This works was founded in about 1775 to bleach linen, using the pure water of the river Almond, and became one of the largest bleachworks in Scotland. It continued in use until 1981 in the ownership of Burt, Lumsden and Co Ltd. This view shows the central section of a Dalglish clip stenter, a machine used for drying cloth to a standard width. The curiously-shaped objects are devices for directing hot air on to both surfaces of the cloth being dried. Bleaching was undertaken with cloth from the loom sewn into long lengths. After the chemical processes of bleaching it was usual to treat the cloth with various finishing materials before drying it to width in a stenter, as seen here. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H82/5/12

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/574105

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