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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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

Fern Ware Box, Mauchline, ca. 1900

Tags: amateur, Ayrshire, craft communities, engravers, exhibitions, Mauchline, Scottish motifs, tartan, tourist industry, wood

Glass Epergne, Holyrood Flint Glass Company, ca.1841

Tags: apprentices, Bohemia, Brass, ceramics, Edinburgh, engravers, exhibitions, fern pattern, glass, middle class, Queen Victoria, silver, tableware

Glazed Earthenware Frog, the Dunmore Pottery, ca. 1890

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

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

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

Tommy Ross, Plumber, Haddington, ca. 1885

Tags: exhibitions, Haddington, metal, new industries, photographers, plumbers

Mrs and Miss Ross of Tain, spinning and knitting ca. 1865

Tags: exhibitions, linen, spinning, textiles, tourist industry, wool

'The Clachan' at the Glasgow Exhibition, 1911

Tags: exhibitions, Glasgow, spinning wheel, textiles, tourist industry

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

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

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