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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Workers in a Type Foundry, ca. 1910

Tags: Brass, Edinburgh, engravers, Glasgow, lead, leather, London, unions, women’s industries, wood

Wooden Cradle, Caithness, late 18th or early 19th century

Tags: Caithness, crofting, Highlands, joiners, linen, Scottish motifs, women’s industries

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

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

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

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

The Bridgeness Pottery Spongers, ca.1910

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

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