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

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

Tags: apprentices, design, Edinburgh, engravers, exhibitions, glass, journeymen, trades organization

Whitework Christening Gown, mid-19th century

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

Architectural Ironwork at Aviemore Station, ca.1898

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

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

Carved sandstone fireplace at Abbotsford by the Smith Brothers of Darnick, ca. 1822

Tags: borders, builders, carvers, design, Selkirkshire, stained glass, stone, Tweed, wood

The Bridgeness Pottery Spongers, ca.1910

Tags: Bo-ness, ceramics, decorators, design, design schools, Falkirk, pottery, women craftworkers, women’s industries

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

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

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

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

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