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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Embroidered Footstool, John Taylor & Sons, ca. 1850

Tags: amateur, Edinburgh, embroiderers, middle class, needlework, textiles, women craftworkers

Engraving of Luckenbooths at St. Giles's Church, 1819

Tags: Edinburgh, engravers, fashionable consumption, gold, jewellers, silver

Fern Ware Box, Mauchline, ca. 1900

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

Fire Irons, Thomas Hadden, ca. 1915

Tags: Arts and Crafts, Edinburgh, Fife, Lorimer, metal

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

Glazed Earthenware Frog, the Dunmore Pottery, ca. 1890

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

Gold Mining in Kildonan, Sutherland, 1869

Tags: Glasgow, gold, Highlands, Inverness, jewellers, photographers

Hall Chair, William Trotter, 1816

Tags: architects, cabinet maker, chair, design schools, Edinburgh, furniture, London, neoclassical, tourist industry

Interior of the Willow Tea Room, Glasgow, 1903

Tags: architects, Arts and Crafts, Celtic revival, design schools, exhibitions, Glasgow, London, women craftworkers, wrought iron

Iona Celtic Art and Euphemia Ritchie, ca. 1900

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

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