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Jute barrow from Cox's Camperdown Works Donated by Mr C. Dwyer Museum number 2007-22 This barrow was designed for moving sacks and other bulky or heavy objects. This one was probably used for moving bales of jute. The Cox family came to Sc ...

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Linen samples woven by Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd., Dundee Donated by Baxter Bros. & Co Ltd Museum number T5239-1=2 / 1976-1479-1=2 The Baxter family began as linen merchants in Dundee in the 1700s. In 1822 they built their first steam-po ...

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Letter from Captain Scott to Baxter Brothers and Company Donated by Baxter Bros. & Co Ltd Museum number T3392 In this letter Captain Scott thanks Baxter Bros. for their 'excellent sailcloth' used aboard the 'Discovery' for the Antarctic ex ...

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Boulton-Watt engine model Museum number Temp. No 4967 This model represents the beam engine which was used to drive the machinery at Douglasfield Bleachfield. The engine was made at the foundry of Matthew Boulton and James Watt in Birmingham. It w ...

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Copper dye holder Bequeathed by Barbara Blackwood Museum number 1980-437 Used to hold the dye for stamping trade marks onto finished flax cloth at the Baxter Works, King Street, Dundee. 1980-437 ...

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Model of Cox's Camperdown Works circa 1900 Commissioned with monies provided by DAGMA. Museum number 1985-166 The Cox family came to Scotland from the Netherlands in the sixteenth century and quickly established themselves as linen merchants nea ...

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Jute fibre Museum number T228/ 9999-849 Dundee spinners experiments with jute eventually proved successful and Dundee merchants saw the potential market for the finished cloth. By 1860 jute replaced flax as the principal industry in Dundee. ...

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Protective overshoes made of jute or 'Rovie slippers' Museum number 1986-319 The women working in the mills used to crochet these slippers from the rove yarn. They were soft and comfortable and made very good overshoes in icy weather. ...

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