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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Dumbarton Glassmaking c. 1820

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

Engraving of Luckenbooths at St. Giles's Church, 1819

Tags: Edinburgh, engravers, fashionable consumption, gold, jewellers, silver

Workers in a Type Foundry, ca. 1910

Tags: Brass, Edinburgh, engravers, Glasgow, lead, leather, London, unions, women’s industries, wood

Wheelwright’s Workshop, Fala Dam, Midlothian, ca. 1890

Tags: blacksmiths, Edinburgh, iron, joiners, photographers, postcard, tools, tourist industry, Wheelwright, wood

Workshop of J. and R. Glen, Highland Bagpipe Makers, 1970s

Tags: collectors, Edinburgh, exhibitions, tools, wood

Thomas Hadden’s workshop, Edinburgh, ca. 1910

Tags: architects, Arts and Crafts, Edinburgh, Fife, granite, joiners, Lorimer, masons, smiths, stained glass, stone carving, wood, wrought-iron

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

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

Orkney Chair, ca. 1890

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

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

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

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

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

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