Day at the Barrowfield Dye-Works, Glasgow
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An 1844 Penny Magazine supplement describing a visit to Monteith's Barrowfield Dye-Works in Glasgow. It explains the lengthy Turkey-red dyeing process for cotton cloth and yarn (oiling, alkali, sumach, alum, madder and blood dye, clearing) and the hydraulic bandana press that discharges white spots from dyed handkerchief cloth using perforated lead plates. The later pages give a historical survey of dyeing and printing of cottons in India, the East and the Americas, and of muslin tambouring and embroidery in Scotland and Ireland.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- July 1844
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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