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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Workers in a Type Foundry, ca. 1910

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

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

Balance Beam and Weight Pans ca. 1830

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

Doorpiece, 64 Queen Street, New Town, Edinburgh, 1790

Tags: apprentices, architects, Brass, Carron, Edinburgh, Falkirk, granite, iron, neoclassical, Robert Adam, stone carving

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

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

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