Turkey red gallery

"I was fascinated by the dyes going into the water. It wasn't just a wee spot of dye, the whole river was discoloured with different designs all over the place, yellows running into purples, running into reds, running into oranges. Picasso couldn't have painted it."

"The most basic and common vehicles were manual hurlies, the horse and cart, the motorised hurlie, and the steam train. A hurlie was essentially a large multi'purpose wheelbarrow with three wheels which was used for any number of purposes including, carrying lumps of cloth, troughs of dye/print, engraved rollers, beamed cloth and parcelled cloth."