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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The Petrie Family, dressing shawls, Shetland, ca.1910

Tags: aristocratic patronage, fashionable consumption, knitters, photographers, shawls, Shetland, women’s industries

Kildonan Gold Cross, ca.1869

Tags: aristocratic patronage, Celtic revival, design, fashionable consumption, Glasgow, gold, jewellers, Sutherland

Wemyss Ware Cat, ca. 1890

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

The 'Jaw Bone' Stand at the Edinburgh International Exhibition, 1886

Tags: aristocratic patronage, Edinburgh, exhibitions, Glasgow, home industries, knitters, shawls, Shetland, women’s industries

Glazed Earthenware Frog, the Dunmore Pottery, ca. 1890

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

Silver Teapot, Robert Gray and Son, Glasgow, 1827

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

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

Design for a Paisley Shawl, ca.1839

Tags: aristocratic patronage, Board of Trustees, copyright and patenting, craft communities, design schools, designers, exhibitions, fashionable consumption, foreign craft influence, Glasgow, Paisley

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