The Material Landscapes of Scotland’s Jewellery Craft, 1780-1914
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 27 July 2023
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781501358005
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 230x152x22 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 48 colour and 20 bw illus 473
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Short description:
This volume explores questions of materiality and the shifting meanings of skill and workmanship through Scotland's jewellery craft in the long nineteenth century.
MoreLong description:
Shortlisted for the History Book Award in Scotland's National Book Awards, 2023
Shortlisted for the Society of Authors Translation Prize 2019
During the long 19th century, Scotland was home to an established body of skilled jewellers who were able to access a range of materials from the country's varied natural landscape: precious gold and silver; sparkling crystals and colourful stones; freshwater pearls, shells and parts of rare animals.
Following these materials on their journey from hill and shore, across the jeweller's bench and on to the bodies of wearers, this book challenges the persistent notion that the forces of industrialisation led to the decline of craft. It instead reveals a vivid picture of skilled producers who were driving new and revived areas of hand skill, and who were key to fostering a focused cultural engagement with the natural world - among both producers and consumers - through the things they made. By placing producers and their skill in cultural context, the book reveals how examining the materiality of even the smallest of objects can offer new and multifaceted insights into the wider transformations that marked British history during the long 19th century.
Uniting a vast array of jewellery objects with a range of other sources - including paintings, engravings, newspaper reports, letters, inventories of big houses and small workshops, sketchbooks, novels, works of literary geology and early travel writings - this book provides a deep dive into the cultural history of jewellery production through accessible thematic studies. In doing so, it sets out innovative methodologies for writing about the histories of craft production, the natural environment and the material world. Now available in a paperback edition, it will be an important addition to the bookshelf of cultural historians and those interested in Scotland's wild landscapes and natural objects.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Revealing Craft: Fusing Nature and Culture
Chapter 1: Making Things: In the Jewellery Workshop
Chapter 2: New-Old Objects: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Past
Chapter 3: Metals: Landscape and Memory in Gold and Silver
Chapter 4: Minerals: Crafting Colour Worlds in Stone
Chapter 5: (Un)Living Things: Material Afterlives in Pearls, Shells and Taxidermy
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