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

Gold Mining in Kildonan, Sutherland, 1869

Tags: Glasgow, gold, Highlands, Inverness, jewellers, photographers

Workers in a Type Foundry, ca. 1910

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

Danny Thompson’s Cabinet Makers Workshop, Tain, ca. 1890

Tags: apprentices, cabinet maker, design, furniture, Highlands, photographers, portraits, Tain, textiles, tools, tourist industry, 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

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

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

Workshop of a Handloom Weaver, Lanark ca. 1900

Tags: Fife, Glasgow, Highlands, Lanark, linen, Paisley, postcard, silk, spinning wheel, tourist industry, weavers, wool

Workshop of Tailor, John D. Findlay, Strathaven, ca. 1900

Tags: Lanark, silk, Strathaven, tailors, textiles, trades organization, unions, weavers

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