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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Robert Davidson, Blacksmith and his Daughter, Roxburghshire ca. 1897

Tags: amateur, blacksmiths, dressmakers, Hawick, joiners, photographers, Roxburghshire

Portrait of Hugh Miller, Geologist, Writer and Stonemason ca. 1845

Tags: apprentices, cart wright, Edinburgh, Highlands, masons, shoemakers, stone carving, Stonemason

Phoebe Traquair, Self Portrait, ca. 1910

Tags: Arts and Crafts, decorators, Dublin, Edinburgh, embroiderers, jewellers, Lorimer

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

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

Orkney Chair, ca. 1890

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

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

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

Matthew Hardie, violin maker in Edinburgh, 1822

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

Masons in Erran Granite Works, Aberdeen, ca. 1890

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

Kildonan Gold Cross, ca.1869

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

Karel Nekola (ca.1857-1915), Griselda Hill Pottery, ca. 2009

Tags: apprentices, design, Fife, pottery, Wemyss Ware

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