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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Gold Mining in Kildonan, Sutherland, 1869

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

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

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

Workshop of a Handloom Weaver, Lanark ca. 1900

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

Wooden Cradle, Caithness, late 18th or early 19th century

Tags: Caithness, crofting, Highlands, joiners, linen, Scottish motifs, women’s industries

Architectural Ironwork at Aviemore Station, ca.1898

Tags: agriculture, carpenters, cast-iron, design, engineers, foundry, gothic, Highlands, joiners, metal, neoclassical, tourist industry

Basket Hawkers, Argyll, ca. 1900

Tags: baskets, borders, furniture, Highlands, Kirkness, Kirkwall, Orkney, pottery, Shetland, Skye, smiths, straw

Workmen at Balnagown Castle, 1880s

Tags: builders, carpenters, Highlands, photographers, slaters, Tain

Portrait of Hugh Miller, Geologist, Writer and Stonemason ca. 1845

Tags: apprentices, cart wright, Edinburgh, Highlands, masons, shoemakers, stone carving, Stonemason

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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