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Baxter Brothers & Co Ltd, linen and jute spinners and manufacturers, Dundee
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Charles Mackie's Reminiscences of Flax Spinning.

A review of flax spinning in Dundee (and Angus, Fife, Ireland), "from its beginning" to the year 1835, by an old mill manager. Topics include: brief general history of flax spinning; development of Lyall's flax spinning frame at Bervie; faults in early designs of frames and their operation; Balgownie Mill, Fife; militancy of women spinners in Forfarshire [Angus], c.1809; development of carding engine; the Rev James Smith's mill at Gateside, near Newburgh (Rattle Trap Mill); supply of Dundee made machinery to Ireland; distress in Dundee caused by fall in supply of flax from Baltic; methods of James Carmichael; developments and ideas of George Moon of Russel Mill, Fife in the spinning of tow yarns; quality of Dundee yarns sacrificed to quantity; competition in Dundee and relationships between mill masters, managers and manufacturers; invention of the gill; Dundee banks (1825); J. & J. Grimshaws mills in Belfast. [78pp]
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