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

Workshop of Tailor, John D. Findlay, Strathaven, ca. 1900

Tags: Lanark, silk, Strathaven, tailors, textiles, trades organization, unions, weavers

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 Clachan' at the Glasgow Exhibition, 1911

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

Workers at the Sandilands Chemical Works, ca.1910

Tags: apprentices, blacksmiths, coopers, engineers, joiners, new industries, railways, textiles

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

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

Embroidered Footstool, John Taylor & Sons, ca. 1850

Tags: amateur, Edinburgh, embroiderers, middle class, needlework, textiles, women craftworkers

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