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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Gold Mining in Kildonan, Sutherland, 1869

Tags: Glasgow, gold, Highlands, Inverness, jewellers, photographers

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

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

Wheelwright’s Workshop, Fala Dam, Midlothian, ca. 1890

Tags: blacksmiths, Edinburgh, iron, joiners, photographers, postcard, tools, tourist industry, Wheelwright, wood

Alexander Jack & Sons, Agricultural Implement Maker, ca. 1885

Tags: Ayrshire, blacksmiths, Brass, cabinet maker, embroiderers, engineers, exhibitions, foundry, iron, joiners, patterns, photographers, shoemakers, textiles, weavers

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

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

Robert Foubister and his daughter Lizzie, Orkney ca. 1920

Tags: chair, Kirkness, Kirkwall, Orkney, photographers, postcard, straw, tourist industry, wood

‘The Carpenter and his Wife’, Alexander McCallum Webster, ca. 1867

Tags: carpenters, Glasgow, new industries, photographers

Dressmakers employed by Veitch of Peebles, ca.1890

Tags: apprentices, dressmakers, Edinburgh, milliners, Peebles, photographers, tourist industry

Robert Davidson, Blacksmith and his Daughter, Roxburghshire ca. 1897

Tags: amateur, blacksmiths, dressmakers, Hawick, joiners, photographers, Roxburghshire

Tommy Ross, Plumber, Haddington, ca. 1885

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

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