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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Glazed Earthenware Frog, the Dunmore Pottery, ca. 1890

Tags: aristocratic patronage, ceramics, China, exhibitions, Fife, Oriental, pottery, Queen Victoria, Stirlingshire, tourist industry

Glass Epergne, Holyrood Flint Glass Company, ca.1841

Tags: apprentices, Bohemia, Brass, ceramics, Edinburgh, engravers, exhibitions, fern pattern, glass, middle class, Queen Victoria, silver, tableware

Fern Ware Box, Mauchline, ca. 1900

Tags: amateur, Ayrshire, craft communities, engravers, exhibitions, Mauchline, Scottish motifs, tartan, tourist industry, wood

Design for a Paisley Shawl, ca.1839

Tags: aristocratic patronage, Board of Trustees, copyright and patenting, craft communities, design schools, designers, exhibitions, fashionable consumption, foreign craft influence, Glasgow, Paisley

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