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Established in 1826, the history of the firm goes back even further to 1774, when the craftsmanship and skill of James Kirkwood's hand engravings were noticed by Sir William Forbes, head of an Edinburgh bank. Sir William subsequently commissioned Kirkwood to produce the metal plates required for the manufacture of banknotes for the Union Bank of Scotland in 1830. Craftsmanship was passed down to James from his father, John Kirkwood, a renowned clockmaker from Redpath in the Scottish Borders. James Kirkwood’s son Robert went on to become a specialist engraver of the plates required for banknotes, pictures, maps and geographical globes. The skills required to engrave the designs on flat copper and steel plates were passed from generation to generation and were similar to those of a medal die-cutter. It was in this way that Robert's son Alexander eventually founded the company as it is today, becoming one of the finest medallists in Scotland.

The Artist Teachers' Exhibition Society was established c1910-1911 in Glasgow, Scotland, and was open to all who were artist teachers, with its object being to maintain a high standard of personal work on the part of its members. James A Dron acted as Secretary and Treasurer for the Society.
The first exhibition was held in 1911 and the fourth in 1916, an exhibition which gave its proceeds to the Scottish branch of the Red Cross Society and the Soldiers' & Sailors' Families Association. Members included many staff from The Glasgow School of Art, including Fra Newbery, Ann Macbeth and Maurice Greiffenhagen as well as teachers from other institutions in Scotland.

Barton was established in 1861 by Thomas Barton (born in England), at No.9, South Parade, now known as MG Road, in Bangalore, where the business showroom is still located. The company became renowned for the wide range of silverware it produced, particularly regimental and trophy works. In 1891, Percy Alfred Barton , son of Thomas, took over as the second managing Director, continuing the family legacy until 1947 when the business was bought over by
Madhukar Surajmal Mehta, of Palanpur, Gujarat. His family continue to run the company, now more often referred to as 'the Silvermasters'.

Bedford Lemere & Co was the pre-eminent English firm of architectural photographers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Taking photographs at a time of extraordinary change and unparalleled optimism, its customers were leading architects, designers, industrialists, estate agents, hoteliers and retailers. Over the years Bedford Lemere & Co photographed country houses, factories, hospitals, shops, banks, railway stations, cruise liners and, during the First World War, armaments manufacture. Its work centred on London, but it received commissions throughout the British Isles and occasionally from abroad. The firm's work was technically outstanding and executed with a distinctive sympathy for its subject matter.

Responsible for printing and publishing The Annual Reports of The Glasgow School of Art. Regarding the Needlecraft Exhibition, the material presented indicates that the firm were in touch with The School regarding the paper type and quality for the exhibition catalogue.

William Birch was a furniture maker, based in High Wycombe. In the 1840s, according to family tradition Birch began chairmaking. In 1853 he made his first appeared in trade directories. In 1883 William son's Walter started his own chairmaking business in Castle Street, after beginning some years before at the back of The Woolpack pub in Oxford Road. By 1888 another son, Charles, had started a furniture factory in Queen’s Road and carried on in business until World War One. In 1895 Walter took over his father’s firm as Birch and Company with premises in Denmark Street. The Denmark Street factory was rebuilt in 1898 according to the latest modern specifications. The factory burned down very soon after it was built, despite being designed to be fire-proof. By the end of the 1890s, Birch's was supplying furniture for Liberty's and other prestigious London stores Around 1900 the firm seems to have been one of the first to branch out into making general furniture in addition to chairs alone. Pioneered the development of Arts and Crafts-influenced furniture locally, and employed well-known designers such as EG Punnett, George Walton (who worked with Mackintosh) and Whitehead. Birch’s opened a second site in Wycombe at Leigh Street, and between 1931 and 1935 the whole business concentrated in Leigh St, in 1938 employing 350. The company was acquired by E. Gomme in 1954.

Industrial photographers, Glasgow.

A four-generation Silversmithing company founded in Edinburgh by William Brook in the 1830s. The firm was continued by his son, Alexander J.S. Brook then grandson William Brook II but ended with Miss Ann Byron Brook who inherited the firm on her fathers death in 1941 and had to sell the George St premises and £30,000 of stock in 1951 due to a shortage of skilled craftsmen and a ban on electro-plate. Awarded a Royal warrant and goldsmiths to the Royal Company of Archers, the firm had also been responsible for the annual cleaning of the Scottish Crown Jewels and Regalia. It traded from 87 George Street.

The company was stablished in 1976 when the founder, Ron Carr, left his factory position in Sheffield to craft silver jewellery full time from his garage.
Despite continued growth and expansion, Carrs still remains an independent, family-run company, with a strong sense of tradition and the determination to secure the business for generations to come, manufacturing a range of traditional silver and silver plated gifts and commemorative items.
The business is proud of its 'Steel City' of Sheffield roots and being part of a rich and intricate manufacturing history, playing a part in preserving the city’s illustrious cutlery and silverware heritage.

The Centre for Advanced Textiles (CAT) at Glasgow School of Art was established in 2000 with a Research and Development Grant of £661,000 from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. The remit of the centre is to: i) provide cutting edge facilities for textile design education; ii) investigate the aesthetic, technical and commercial opportunities presented by digital textile printing, and; and iii) operate a commercial service bureau for industry and individuals.

Charles Smith was a plaster figure and sculptor's moulder in London active from at least 1886 until his death in 1918. After the death of Charles Smith, his sons, George Smith and Charles Smith Jr continued the business. The firm experienced financial difficulty in the 1920s, although the family continued to be involved in mould making and plaster casting until 1953.

Clydesdale Bank plc (Scottish Gaelic: Banca Dhail Chluaidh) is a commercial bank in Scotland. Formed in Glasgow in 1838, it is the smallest of the three Scottish banks. Independent until it was purchased by Midland Bank in 1920, it formed part of the National Australia Bank Group (NAB) between 1987 and 2016. Clydesdale Bank was divested from National Australia Bank in early 2016 and its holding company CYBG plc, trades on the London and Sydney stock exchanges. CYBG plc's other banking business, Yorkshire Bank operates as a trading division of Clydesdale Bank plc under its banking licence.

COBOLT is a mural collective of three designers - Erin Bradley-Scott, Chelsea Frew and Kat Loudon based in Glasgow. See https://www.coboltcollective.com/ for more information.

A successful company during the period of British rule in Burma, Coombes Company produced many of the ceremonial, commemorative and souviner silver items used by the colonial administrators. Stylistically, Burmese silver often had figures set in high relief, the work was often pierced and the base chased with the maker’s own particular mark or ’signature’. Burmese silver from the Raj period (the time of British rule) typically consists of drinking cups, betel and lime boxes and thabeik bowls (begging bowls). European forms, such as tea sets and other household and personal items, are not found as commonly as in Indian silver, but are occasionally seen. The company also supplied firearms and ammunition.

Cosmopolitan is an American monthly fashion and entertainment magazine for women, first published based in New York City in March 1886 as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and, since 1965, has become a women's magazine. Taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitan_(magazine)

Crown & Rose Pewter, Englefields Ltd., London, England.Brown & Englefield founded in 1885. Makers stamp on this piece mark used from 1948. Englefields was bought by Royal Selangor (of Malaysia) in 1987.

Domenicho (Domenico) Brucciani (1815-1880) was born in Lucca, Italy and migrated to England in the first half of the nineteenth century. He established a business which produced casts of sculptural works from international collections. By 1837 he owned a showroom near Covent Garden and was selling works to the British Museum and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). By 1857 D. Brucciani & Co. were working for the British Museum, making moulds and casts of their classical sculptures, bronzes and other pieces, to be sold commercially. The company was successful during Brucciani's lifetime as it capitalised on the nineteenth century fashion to have plaster casts of sculptural works in the home. Following his death his business was purchased by another Italian, Joseph Caproni (1846 - 1900), who retained the name D. Brucciani & Co., and the business continued to manufacture casts, with customers including the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Museum of Classical Archaeology. However, as demand for plaster casts declined in the twentieth century, the business failed. Consequently, it was purchased by the V&A and operated as the Department for the Sale of Casts until 1951 when it was forced to closed due to financial losses.

Cunninghame, David, die sinker, stamp and seal engraver, stamper and embosser in relief, embossing press manufacturer, and special machine engraver, sole agent for parallel motion endorsing machines, 48 Buchanan Street ; house, 12 VaJeview terrace, Langside .

Glasgow based printing company based on Blythswood street, specialising in offset photolithography printing.

The firm was founded in Sheffield by James Deakin in 1866. The first mark was entered by the firm in Sheffield Assay Office on 31 January 1878. It was a "JD" over "WD" and, possibly, represented the partnership of James Deakin and his son William Pitchford Deakin. The firm was active at Sidney Works, Matilda Street, Sheffield. In 1886, two further sons entered the partnership, John Deakin and Albert Deakin, and the firm was then known as James Deakin & Sons. Further marks were entered in London Assay Office (1888) by William and John Deakin (subsidiary offices and showrooms at 48 Holborn Viaduct, London), Chester and Birmingham. Further offices and showrooms were opened at Gardiner House, 14 Charterhouse Street, London, 34 St. Enoch Square, Glasgow and 7 Queen Street, Belfast. After the retirement of James Deakin (1893) the business was continued by his sons William, John and Albert. In 1897, the firm was converted into a limited liability company under the style James Deakin & Sons Ltd. The firm was the proprietor of Shaw and Fisher, Electro-plate Manufacturers (established 1835) and of Walter Latham & Son, Sterling Silver & Electro-plate manufacturers (established 1874). To avoid any confusion with the production of another Sheffield manufacturer having the same initials JD&S (James Dixon & Sons) the firm used in its silver plate production a figural trade mark representing a "desk bell" (often interpreted as a "lamp"). Likewise, Dixon used a figural trade mark (registered in 1879) representing a "bugle". Trade marks used: AZTEC, PURITAN, REVLIS, SARBON, SHAW & FISHER, SIDNEY SILVER. The firm closed its activity c. 1940.

Donald Brothers emerged out of the coarse jute and linen industry of Dundee, manufacturing rugged textured Art canvasses and linens for use as wallcoverings and furnishings by 1896. Their Art fabrics were extensively used within art galleries and the Arts & Crafts interior in Britain and America between 1896-1914. Building on their early success with craft manufacture between the 1930s and 1960s the firm made a significant contribution to the design of furnishing textiles, gaining international recognition for their fabrics marketed under the trade name Old Glamis Fabrics. Best known for their high quality woven linen furnishings, their range included textured weaves, jacquard woven tapestries and prints. In 1983 the company was taken over by William Halley & Son, and has since re-emerged as active makers of quality furnishings.

Producer of metal ware. Founded by George Richards Elkington in Birmingham. the son of a gilt-toy maker he was born in 1801 and apprenticed to his uncles.With his cousin Henry and a number of assistants he was able in 1840 to perfect the technique of electroplating. The business traded under the name Elkington & Co. from 1861. G R Elkington died in 1865 after which his four sons continued the firm. The vast output of the firm included all types of silver and electroplate, from table silver and domestic holloware to fine display and art works. They employed many fine artists to design for them including Benjamin Schlick, Pierre-Emile Jeannest, Leonard Morel-Ladeuil, Auguste Adolphe Willms and Edward Welby Pugin, G. Halliday and Christopher Dresser