Turkey red

Of the nine works, only elements of Alexandria, Dalmonach, Dillchip, and Dalquhum are visible today. Their legacy however surrounds them in the urban form, streets, parks and public buildings that bear their name in the Vale. Their output remains in the memories of those who worked there and maybe someday in a fitting museum that will do their endeavours justice.

By the time these alliances were formed however, It was already too little too late. By 1914 cheaper organic dyes like naptha red began to take the place of Turkey red dyes. The UTR tried them but rejected them in favour of the old system. Ferryfield and Milton closed in 1915. Levenbank, Dalmonach and Dillichip Works all closed in the 1930s as India began to raise import duties on finished cotton goods entering her country. With full independence, orders from India, the UTR's biggest export market, would collapse completely and with it the future of the textile industry in the Vale of Leven. Some of the works were used during the 1939-45 war as army and naval bases and the war did at least provide military orders that kept Alexandria Works open. Cordale and Dalquhum ended production in 1942. The last of the works, the Craft, closed in 1960, its contents, purchased by the Calico Printers association and shipped down to Manchester.