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

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

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

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

Cutting and Engraving Shop, Holyrood Flint Glass Co. ca. 1860

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Masons in Erran Granite Works, Aberdeen, ca. 1890

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

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Workers at the Sandilands Chemical Works, ca.1910

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Dressmakers employed by Veitch of Peebles, ca.1890

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

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

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

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

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

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