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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Brass Candle Sconce, Alex Ritchie, ca. 1900

Tags: apprentices, aristocratic patronage, Arts and Crafts, Brass, Celtic revival, Edinburgh, England, factories, Glasgow, Highlands, Iona, jewellers, leather, silver, tourist industry, wood

Basket Hawkers, Argyll, ca. 1900

Tags: baskets, borders, furniture, Highlands, Kirkness, Kirkwall, Orkney, pottery, Shetland, Skye, smiths, straw

Balance Beam and Weight Pans ca. 1830

Tags: Brass, bronze, copper, engineers, Fife, smiths, town councils, trades

Architectural Ironwork at Aviemore Station, ca.1898

Tags: agriculture, carpenters, cast-iron, design, engineers, foundry, gothic, Highlands, joiners, metal, neoclassical, tourist industry

Alice Groom of Doulton & Co. at the Glasgow Exhibition, 1888

Tags: design, exhibitions, Glasgow, London, pottery, school of art, tailors, tourist industry

Alexander Jack & Sons, Agricultural Implement Maker, ca. 1885

Tags: Ayrshire, blacksmiths, Brass, cabinet maker, embroiderers, engineers, exhibitions, foundry, iron, joiners, patterns, photographers, shoemakers, textiles, weavers

Agate Dirk, probably made by Peter Westren, Edinburgh ca.1858

Tags: copyright and patenting, Edinburgh, engravers, jewellers, Montrose, pebbles, Scottish motifs, silver, tourist industry

A & G. Cairncross Jewellers, ca. 1900

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

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

Tags: carpenters, Glasgow, new industries, photographers

'The Clachan' at the Glasgow Exhibition, 1911

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

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