Article ID: CBB001201110

Designers in the Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fancy Textile Industry: Education, Employment and Exhibition (2014)

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Mid-nineteenth century design reform and design education has generated recent scholarly interest, but much of this is London-focussed, and the designers themselves, mostly located in northern industrial towns, or the manufacturers that employed them, are rarely considered. This essay, which has emerged out of a study of the nineteenth-century Scottish printed cotton and woven damask industries, seeks to examine the character of provincial design employment, education and exhibition in two localities---Glasgow and Dunfermline---and in doing so provide an insight to a complex engagement with the processes of textile design. It includes discussion of family participation in textile design and related activities and the advertising for and employment of both freelance and salaried designers is explored. The functioning of design schools in Scotland forms another focus for analysis along with the associated local exhibiting of designs for prizes. Contrast is drawn between the printed cotton industry, which mainly employed in-house designers and the more prosperous linen damask industry, which generated a small group of financially successful and widely celebrated independent studio designers.

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Authors & Contributors
Spadoni, Francesco Tozzi
Dodgson, Mark
Thomas Prévéraud
Lambert, Cornelia C.
Holden, Roger N.
Casson, Catherine
Concepts
Textile industry
Technical education
Technology and industry
Textiles
Technology and culture
Technology education and teaching
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
England
Great Britain
Ukraine
Spain
Italy
France
Institutions
New Lanark
Kiev Polytechnic Institute
National School of Bridge Engineering (Ukraine)
Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, England
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