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

Workers in a Type Foundry, ca. 1910

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

Masons in Erran Granite Works, Aberdeen, ca. 1890

Tags: Aberdeen, America, apprentices, London, masons, railways, schools of design, stone, tools

Orkney Chair, ca. 1890

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

Matthew Hardie, violin maker in Edinburgh, 1822

Tags: clock maker, Edinburgh, joiners, London, patronage, wood

James Tassie, Sculptor and Gem Engraver, ca. 1781

Tags: Dublin, fashionable consumption, Glasgow, glass, jewellers, London

Alice Groom of Doulton & Co. at the Glasgow Exhibition, 1888

Tags: design, exhibitions, Glasgow, London, pottery, school of art, tailors, tourist industry

Interior of the Willow Tea Room, Glasgow, 1903

Tags: architects, Arts and Crafts, Celtic revival, design schools, exhibitions, Glasgow, London, women craftworkers, wrought iron

Silver Teapot, Robert Gray and Son, Glasgow, 1827

Tags: aristocratic patronage, Ayrshire, Glasgow, London, neoclassical, rococo, silver, silversmith

Umbrella Stand, Carron Company, 1843

Tags: cast-iron, copyright and patenting, craft communities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, neoclassical, Robert Adam, Stirling

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