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Glasgow, 100 Camlachie Street, Pyroligneous Acid Works General View
SC 587334
Description Glasgow, 100 Camlachie Street, Pyroligneous Acid Works General View
Date 1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 587334
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Pyroligneous acid works, 100 Camlachie Street, Glasgow (Glasgow City council area) This works was founded in about 1813 by Turnbull, Ramsay and Co, linen printers' colour makers. It made pyroligneous by distilling wood in retorts. The acid was then used to make iron, tin, lead and aluminium acetates as mordants for printworks. This view shows the works from the north. The chimney provided draught for the retorts, and the brick building to the right was a mill for grinding the by-product charcoal to make ironfounders' blacking. The works had closed in 1965. Mordants are substances which react with dyestuffs to make insoluble compounds. In calico printing it was common to print cloth with a mixture of mordant and gum, to form a pattern which was revealed by passing it through a dyebath. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H66/109/1A
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