2019 · Convention
Virtual Competitions
2010 · 60th Annual
The Photo ArchiveThe Weston Trophy
Canada’s award for excellence in leathercraft, remembered
Each year the Society judged members’ finest work for the Weston Trophy — a tradition of craftsmanship standards that spanned generations.
Creating beautiful leather articles, teaching the craft, promoting learning.
The Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft, 1950–2025. This website preserves the Society’s record — its newsletters, photographs, and the craft of its members.
Browse the Photo GalleryRead the Canadian LeathercrafterThe Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft was founded in Toronto in June 1950 and closed in 2025, seventy-five years later. This website is its permanent record, kept as the Society left it: every surviving newsletter, the minutes and reports of its meetings, the photographs of its members’ work, and the names of the people who made it.
The newsletter
Read the bulletins
Every issue the Society printed, transcribed in full and searchable — the craft articles, the branch news, the results of each Annual.
Start reading →The people
Look someone up
Everyone the Society’s own records name, with the offices they held, the certifications they earned and the awards their work won.
Find a member →The photographs
Browse the photographs
Members’ work, conventions, competitions and workshops, from the earliest album to the last Annual.
Open the gallery →The Collection
Seven decades of craft, preserved
More than 4,400 photographs of members’ work, conventions, competitions and workshops — from the archive to 2025. Visit the Photo Gallery →
The Society’s Journal · 1950–2025
The Newsletter
May 21, 2023
Canadian Leathercrafter – January, February, March, April 2023 – Newsletter by CSCL
The CSCL 73rd Annual Convention June 2nd and 3rd, 2023 Come and join us…
Read →December 14, 2022
Canadian Leathercrafter September, October, November, December – 2022 – Newsletter by CSCL
In this edition: Notes from the Editor, Highlights of the past Executive Mtgs, Membership Info, CSCL Larmour Library Fish Skins, Fish Skins – Get your…
Read →August 30, 2022
Canadian Leathercrafter M-J-J-A – 2022 – Newsletter by CSCL
May, June, July, August - 2022 Leathercraft by Nancy Durham, FCSCL: Mahogany-stained leather box inlaid with lizard-skin, Scalloped edge leather belt,…
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“Charter members wanted to create a clearly Canadian organization of crafters.”
For seventy-five years, they did — through workshops, guild meetings, annual conventions and the Canadian Leathercrafter. This site keeps their work in view.
Read the Society’s story