Artisans and Craft Production in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

A University of Edinburgh online exhibition about Scottish artisans, their work and working lives between 1780 and 1914.

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Thomas Hadden’s workshop, Edinburgh, ca. 1910

Tags: architects, Arts and Crafts, Edinburgh, Fife, granite, joiners, Lorimer, masons, smiths, stained glass, stone carving, wood, wrought-iron

Alexander Jack & Sons, Agricultural Implement Maker, ca. 1885

Tags: Ayrshire, blacksmiths, Brass, cabinet maker, embroiderers, engineers, exhibitions, foundry, iron, joiners, patterns, photographers, shoemakers, textiles, weavers

Iona Celtic Art and Euphemia Ritchie, ca. 1900

Tags: Birmingham, Celtic revival, Glasgow, Iona, jewellers, metal, tourist industry

Cutting and Engraving Shop, Holyrood Flint Glass Co. ca. 1860

Tags: apprentices, design, Edinburgh, engravers, exhibitions, glass, journeymen, trades organization

Masons in Erran Granite Works, Aberdeen, ca. 1890

Tags: Aberdeen, America, apprentices, London, masons, railways, schools of design, stone, tools

Orkney Chair, ca. 1890

Tags: Arts and Crafts, Caithness, chair, crofting, Edinburgh, Fife, Kirkness, Kirkwall, London, Lorimer, Orkney, pine, straw

Wooden Cradle, Caithness, late 18th or early 19th century

Tags: Caithness, crofting, Highlands, joiners, linen, Scottish motifs, women’s industries

Whitework Christening Gown, mid-19th century

Tags: Ayrshire, copyright and patenting, design, embroiderers, Glasgow, home industries

The Petrie Family, dressing shawls, Shetland, ca.1910

Tags: aristocratic patronage, fashionable consumption, knitters, photographers, shawls, Shetland, women’s industries

Balance Beam and Weight Pans ca. 1830

Tags: Brass, bronze, copper, engineers, Fife, smiths, town councils, trades

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