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

Dumbarton Glassmaking c. 1820

Tags: building, carpenters, cotton, Edinburgh, embroiderers, glass, London

Dressmakers employed by Veitch of Peebles, ca.1890

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

Doorpiece, 64 Queen Street, New Town, Edinburgh, 1790

Tags: apprentices, architects, Brass, Carron, Edinburgh, Falkirk, granite, iron, neoclassical, Robert Adam, stone carving

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

Danny Thompson’s Cabinet Makers Workshop, Tain, ca. 1890

Tags: apprentices, cabinet maker, design, furniture, Highlands, photographers, portraits, Tain, textiles, tools, tourist industry, wood

Cutting and Engraving Shop, Holyrood Flint Glass Co. ca. 1860

Tags: apprentices, design, Edinburgh, engravers, exhibitions, glass, journeymen, trades organization

Craftsmen at Mar Lodge, Braemar, ca. 1900

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

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

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

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

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

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