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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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

Embroidered Footstool, John Taylor & Sons, ca. 1850

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

Fern Ware Box, Mauchline, ca. 1900

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

Hall Chair, William Trotter, 1816

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

Umbrella Stand, Carron Company, 1843

Tags: cast-iron, copyright and patenting, craft communities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, neoclassical, Robert Adam, Stirling

Fire Irons, Thomas Hadden, ca. 1915

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

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

Silver Teapot, Robert Gray and Son, Glasgow, 1827

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

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

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