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

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 J. and R. Glen, Highland Bagpipe Makers, 1970s

Tags: collectors, Edinburgh, exhibitions, tools, wood

Thomas Hadden’s workshop, Edinburgh, ca. 1910

Tags: architects, Arts and Crafts, Edinburgh, Fife, granite, joiners, Lorimer, masons, smiths, stained glass, stone carving, wood, wrought-iron

Carved sandstone fireplace at Abbotsford by the Smith Brothers of Darnick, ca. 1822

Tags: borders, builders, carvers, design, Selkirkshire, stained glass, stone, Tweed, wood

Coopers in a coopers' yard, Fife, ca. 1889

Tags: Anstruther, apprentices, Fife, fishing industries, metal, new industries, tools, wood

Robert Foubister and his daughter Lizzie, Orkney ca. 1920

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

Craftsmen at Mar Lodge, Braemar, ca. 1900

Tags: Aberdeen, architects, builders, carpenters, decorators, furniture, plasterers, plumbers, tinsmiths, wood

Matthew Hardie, violin maker in Edinburgh, 1822

Tags: clock maker, Edinburgh, joiners, London, patronage, wood

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