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2025 · Workshop

Workshop: the Norland Hinged Box

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Norland Presents Hinged Box with Lauch Harrison Saturday March 1, 2025 @ 10 am – 4 pm at the Norland Library 3448 Monck Rd $15 for workshop & $25 for materials

Outline We will use 5/6oz Veg Leather to construct an interlocking hinged top that will cover a small leather box. Alcohol Dyes will be used to colour the veg tan leather: block dye & saturation will be used. The Hinged Box design was created by David Trotter and perfected by David McPherson FCSCL, this iteration is a combination of what I could remember and what I reinvented to for the Hinged Box Project.

The box will have rounded corners

Materials Cost $25 what's Supplied
2 Sq Ft of 5/6 oz Veg Leather, 3/8” wood dowel 7” long, dyes, burnish gum,
Contact Adhesive, White Glue, patterns

Tools to bring – there will be loaners available
Head Knife or scalpel, X-acto or Exel #18 Flat Chisel in chucked Handle, Straight Edge,
Small Round Edger #0 & #1, cutting boards, scratch awl, bone folder, Corner cutter, spring clamps, Clamping Boards, Smooth Faced Hammer, French Edgers and Carving tools.

Auction for Exel #18 blade 1/2” with Handle

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APA 7th edition

Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft. (2025). Workshop: the Norland Hinged Box [Workshop notice]. Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft Archive. https://canadianleathercraft.org/craft/2025-workshop-norland-hinged-box/

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  • APA 7th edition

    Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft. (2025). Workshop: the Norland Hinged Box [Workshop notice]. Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft Archive. https://canadianleathercraft.org/craft/2025-workshop-norland-hinged-box/

  • Chicago 17th edition

    Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft. “Workshop: The Norland Hinged Box.” Workshop notice, 2025. Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft Archive. https://canadianleathercraft.org/craft/2025-workshop-norland-hinged-box/.

  • MLA 9th edition

    Workshop: The Norland Hinged Box. 2025. Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft Archive, https://canadianleathercraft.org/craft/2025-workshop-norland-hinged-box/.

  • Harvard

    Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft (2025) Workshop: the Norland Hinged Box [Workshop notice]. Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft Archive. Available at: https://canadianleathercraft.org/craft/2025-workshop-norland-hinged-box/.

  • BibTeX
    @misc{cscl2025workshopnorlandhingedbox,
  title        = {{Workshop: the Norland Hinged Box}},
  author       = {{Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft}},
  howpublished = {Workshop notice},
  year         = {2025},
  publisher    = {Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft},
  note         = {Held in the Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft Archive},
  language     = {english},
  url          = {https://canadianleathercraft.org/craft/2025-workshop-norland-hinged-box/}
}