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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Dressmakers employed by Veitch of Peebles, ca.1890

Tags: apprentices, dressmakers, Edinburgh, milliners, Peebles, photographers, tourist industry

Mrs and Miss Ross of Tain, spinning and knitting ca. 1865

Tags: exhibitions, linen, spinning, textiles, tourist industry, wool

‘The Carpenter and his Wife’, Alexander McCallum Webster, ca. 1867

Tags: carpenters, Glasgow, new industries, photographers

Matthew Hardie, violin maker in Edinburgh, 1822

Tags: clock maker, Edinburgh, joiners, London, patronage, wood

Workers at the Sandilands Chemical Works, ca.1910

Tags: apprentices, blacksmiths, coopers, engineers, joiners, new industries, railways, textiles

Craftsmen at Mar Lodge, Braemar, ca. 1900

Tags: Aberdeen, architects, builders, carpenters, decorators, furniture, plasterers, plumbers, tinsmiths, wood

The Bridgeness Pottery Spongers, ca.1910

Tags: Bo-ness, ceramics, decorators, design, design schools, Falkirk, pottery, women craftworkers, women’s industries

A & G. Cairncross Jewellers, ca. 1900

Tags: clock maker, gold, jewellers, pearls, Perth, silver

'The Clachan' at the Glasgow Exhibition, 1911

Tags: exhibitions, Glasgow, spinning wheel, textiles, tourist industry

The ‘Executive’ of Dundee, by Henry Harwood, 1821

Tags: Dundee, Edinburgh, shoemakers, tailors, Trades house, weavers

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