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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Whitework Christening Gown, mid-19th century

Tags: Ayrshire, copyright and patenting, design, embroiderers, Glasgow, home industries

Agate Dirk, probably made by Peter Westren, Edinburgh ca.1858

Tags: copyright and patenting, Edinburgh, engravers, jewellers, Montrose, pebbles, Scottish motifs, silver, tourist industry

Umbrella Stand, Carron Company, 1843

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

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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