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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Workshop of a Handloom Weaver, Lanark ca. 1900

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

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

Orkney Chair, ca. 1890

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

Balance Beam and Weight Pans ca. 1830

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

Wemyss Ware Cat, ca. 1890

Tags: aristocratic patronage, bazaars, collectors, design, Fife, hand-painting, pottery, Staffordshire

Coopers in a coopers' yard, Fife, ca. 1889

Tags: Anstruther, apprentices, Fife, fishing industries, metal, new industries, tools, wood

Karel Nekola (ca.1857-1915), Griselda Hill Pottery, ca. 2009

Tags: apprentices, design, Fife, pottery, Wemyss Ware

Glazed Earthenware Frog, the Dunmore Pottery, ca. 1890

Tags: aristocratic patronage, ceramics, China, exhibitions, Fife, Oriental, pottery, Queen Victoria, Stirlingshire, tourist industry

Fire Irons, Thomas Hadden, ca. 1915

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

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