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

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

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

Workshop of a Handloom Weaver, Lanark ca. 1900

Tags: Fife, Glasgow, Highlands, Lanark, linen, Paisley, postcard, silk, spinning wheel, tourist industry, weavers, wool

Iona Celtic Art and Euphemia Ritchie, ca. 1900

Tags: Birmingham, Celtic revival, Glasgow, Iona, jewellers, metal, tourist industry

Architectural Ironwork at Aviemore Station, ca.1898

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

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

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

Saut [Salt] Bucket, ‘From Cumnock Pottery, 1871’

Tags: Ayrshire, bazaars, Burns, Bute, collectors, pottery, Staffordshire, terracotta, tourist industry

Robert Foubister and his daughter Lizzie, Orkney ca. 1920

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

'The Clachan' at the Glasgow Exhibition, 1911

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

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

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

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