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

Robert Foubister and his daughter Lizzie, Orkney ca. 1920

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

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

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

Silver Teapot, Robert Gray and Son, Glasgow, 1827

Tags: aristocratic patronage, Ayrshire, Glasgow, London, neoclassical, rococo, silver, silversmith

Stained glass panel, 'The Joiners', Stephen Adam, 1878

Tags: Adam, apprentices, Arts and Crafts, carpenters, designers, exhibitions, Glasgow, glass, glass stainers, tools

The 'Jaw Bone' Stand at the Edinburgh International Exhibition, 1886

Tags: aristocratic patronage, Edinburgh, exhibitions, Glasgow, home industries, knitters, shawls, Shetland, women’s industries

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

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

The Bridgeness Pottery Spongers, ca.1910

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

The Petrie Family, dressing shawls, Shetland, ca.1910

Tags: aristocratic patronage, fashionable consumption, knitters, photographers, shawls, Shetland, women’s industries

Tommy Ross, Plumber, Haddington, ca. 1885

Tags: exhibitions, Haddington, metal, new industries, photographers, plumbers

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