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.

Further Reading

Artisans, Craft and Industry in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Scotland

Lynn Abrams, 'Knitting, Autonomy and Identity: The Role of Hand-Knitting in the Construction of Women’s Sense of Self in an Island Community’, Textile History, 37 (2) 149-165

Bernard D.Cotton (2008) Scottish Vernacular Furniture, London

David Bremner (1869) The Industries of Scotland: their rise, progress and present condition, Edinburgh

R.M. Callender & P.F. Reeson (2008) The Scottish Gold Rush of 1869, Monograph of the Northern Mine Research Society, Sheffield

R.H. Campbell (1961) Carron Company, Edinburgh

Annette Carruthers (2013) The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland, London

Annette Carruthers (ed.) (1996) The Scottish Home, Edinburgh

Elizabeth Cumming (1986) Hand, Heart and Soul: the Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland, Edinburgh

George Dalgleish and Henry Steuart Fothringham (2008) Silver made in Scotland, Edinburgh

Peter Davis and Robert Rankine (1986), Wemyss Ware a decorative Scottish Pottery, Edinburgh

Tom Donnelly (1994) The Aberdeen Granite Industry, Aberdeen

Vanessa Habib, Jim Gray and Sheila Forbes (eds.) (2013) Making for America: Transatlantic Craftsmanship: Scotland and the Americas in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, Edinburgh

Janice Helland (2007) British and Irish Home Arts and Industries, 1880–1914: Marketing Craft, Making, Newbridge

Perilla and Juliet Kinchin (c.1988) Glasgow’s Great Exhibitions: 1988, 1901, 1911, 1938, 1988, Bicester

William Knox (1999) Industrial Nation: Work, Culture and Society in Scotland, 1800-Present, Edinburgh

Rosalind K Marshall and George Dalgliesh (1991) The Art of Jewellery in Scotland, Edinburgh

David S Mitchell (2012) The Development of the Architectural Iron Founding Industry in Scotland (unpublished PhD thesis, The University of Edinburgh)

Arnold Myers (1985) ‘The Glen and Ross Collections of Musical Instruments’, The Galpin Society Journal, 38 4-8

Stana Nenadic and Sally Tuckett (2016) ‘Artisans and aristocrats in nineteenth century Scotland.’   Scottish Historical Review, 95 (2)

Stana Nenadic and Sally Tucket ( 2013) Colouring the Nation: the Turkey Red Printed Cotton Industry in Scotland c.1840-1940, Edinburgh

Stana Nenadic (1993) ‘The Small Family Firm in Victorian Britain’, Business History, 35, 86-114

T.C. Smout (1986) A Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1950, London

William Robert Scott (1914) Report to the Board of Agriculture for Scotland on home industries in the Highlands and Islands, Edinburgh

Sally Tuckett (2016),'“Needle Crusaders”: The nineteenth century Ayrshire whitework industry’, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 36 (1) 60-80.

William Thom (1845) Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver, London

David Trachtenberg and Thomas Keith, Mauchline Ware A Collector’s Guide, Woodbridge

Jill Turnbull (2001) The Scottish glass industry 1610-1750: to serve the whole nation with glass, Edinburgh

Dorothy Whyte (1976) ‘Edinburgh Shawls and their Makers’, Costume, 10 (1) 16-28

Elizabeth Wright (1991) ‘Thomas Hadden: architectural metalworker’, Proceedings of the Antiquaries of Scotland, 121 427-435