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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Architectural Ironwork at Aviemore Station, ca.1898

Tags: agriculture, carpenters, cast-iron, design, engineers, foundry, gothic, Highlands, joiners, metal, neoclassical, tourist industry

Kildonan Gold Cross, ca.1869

Tags: aristocratic patronage, Celtic revival, design, fashionable consumption, Glasgow, gold, jewellers, Sutherland

Agate Dirk, probably made by Peter Westren, Edinburgh ca.1858

Tags: copyright and patenting, Edinburgh, engravers, jewellers, Montrose, pebbles, Scottish motifs, silver, tourist industry

Saut [Salt] Bucket, ‘From Cumnock Pottery, 1871’

Tags: Ayrshire, bazaars, Burns, Bute, collectors, pottery, Staffordshire, terracotta, tourist industry

Wemyss Ware Cat, ca. 1890

Tags: aristocratic patronage, bazaars, collectors, design, Fife, hand-painting, pottery, Staffordshire

Pavement tile made at the Sanquhar tile works, ca. 1890

Tags: agriculture, ceramics, Glasgow, Sanquhar, terracotta, tools

Carved sandstone fireplace at Abbotsford by the Smith Brothers of Darnick, ca. 1822

Tags: borders, builders, carvers, design, Selkirkshire, stained glass, stone, Tweed, wood

Basket Hawkers, Argyll, ca. 1900

Tags: baskets, borders, furniture, Highlands, Kirkness, Kirkwall, Orkney, pottery, Shetland, Skye, smiths, straw

Coopers in a coopers' yard, Fife, ca. 1889

Tags: Anstruther, apprentices, Fife, fishing industries, metal, new industries, tools, wood

Robert Foubister and his daughter Lizzie, Orkney ca. 1920

Tags: chair, Kirkness, Kirkwall, Orkney, photographers, postcard, straw, tourist industry, wood

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