Our story continues from where we left off last week, almost about to begin a tour of Verdant Works… John’s intro having finally wound down, we went on inside the jute mill. The museum tells the whole story of jute, beginning with how it was grown in India. It was subsequently processed in Dundee of all placed due to the whaling industry. As whale oil was needed to soften the jute, it made sense to process jute where there was a lot of whale oil, which was apparently Dundee. Anyways once it is softened the jute is processed much like flax and also much like wool, so my super amazing wife and I were having a hoot looking at all the mill equipment. The stuff they have in there comes from a training college, and it seems they still use it occasionally. In the mill they then talked about the industry some, and addressed the relationship with India. They touched on colonialism and how eventually the Dundee industry just couldn’t compete with the Indian industry that eventually grew with…
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