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Page 1 — BRANCH REPORTS
CANADIAN LEATHERCRAFT
Volume XIV No. 1 Autumn, 1964
BRANCH REPORTS
Barrie: Barrie Branch meet at the home of Mrs. Mae Corbett at least monthly. Several new very interesting projects for the season are being considered and a report on the progress of these undertakings will be forthcoming. Hamilton: Meetings are held twice a month on the second and fourth week of the month. The second week is a regular meeting with either a demonstrator or a speaker, and the fourth meeting takes the form of a workshop.
The workshop meeting is usually a follow-up of one of the demonstrations, or work on a given project with each person working on the same type of article. Jean Newton demonstrated shoe horns in October and the next meeting was a workshop with shoe horns as the project.
London: London Branch is presently meeting at the home of Mrs. Marion Kehoe. Mrs. Gerster is Chairman of Branch Exhibitions, and Mrs. Helen Wheaton is London Branch Delegate to the I.A.L.C. with Mrs. Kehoe Alternate.
At the executive meeting it was decided that the meetings this year should be work meetings experimenting with the various techniques observed at the Annual and International gatherings. At one meeting the technique demonstrated by Huldy Gutekunst "Leathercraft Without Tools" was experimented with on a wallet back. Various thicknesses of string were used and Garnet dyes spattered on in three stages. The results were quite pleasing. At the next meeting it is planned to try our hand at using saddle stitching as decoration, in the manner demonstrated by Mrs. Wunch.
All material published in "Canadian Leathercraft" is the property of the Canadian Society of Creative Leathercraft, and may not be reprinted in any form without written permission of the Society.
Editor is Mrs. Margaret McFarlane,151 Glenvale Blvd., Toronto 17, Ontario.
Authorized as Second-Class Mail by the Post Office Department
Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash.
[A stray underscore is not part of the printed text: "or a_ speaker," is set out here as "or a speaker,".]
[The page prints "Mrs. Wunch" here; kept as printed. Whether this is the Mrs. Wunsch named elsewhere in the archive is not decided.]
Page 2 — C.N.E. HOBBY SHOW
Toronto: Meetings are being held at the home of Sadie Roebuck.
We have started out with a most interesting demonstration by Viola Harris. Plans are underway to have further demonstrations and workshops throughout the winter months.
C.N.E. HOBBY SHOW
Mr. L.C. Powell,General Manager of the CNE expressed appreciation for the cooperation our Society gave them at the 1964 Hobby Show. He stated the public reaction to this first CNE Hobby Show appeared to be favourable and asked for any criticism,constructive or otherwise, our group would like to pass along. If this Hobby
Show is repeated in 1965 he wished to know whether we would be interested in participating again.
Your Executive have informed Mr. Powell the forty members who helped in 1964 all expressed keen interest and enjoyment in their demonstrations, and it was agreed we would be interested in helping if there is a 1965 CNE Hobby Show.
We have tried to assess what benefit was derived by our Society from the show. We have had one new member. A few members. possibly four, have had custom orders. Through our teachers at Night Scrods we learn there are some pupils whose interest was aroused at the Hobby Show.
Our chief criticism is that we were not allowed to sell. We expressed the opinion that each Craftsman demonstrating should be allowed to sell in order to obtain some compensation for materials, time and expenses. We also asked that passes for cars should allow entrance near the building where the Show is being held as demonstration materials are too heavy to carry long distances.
THE CANADIAN HANDICRAFTS GUILD had as its Adjudicator for the Canadian National Exhibition Competitions, Mr. Harold J. Brennan of Rochester, N.Y., USA.
Mr. Brennan was very pleased with the high quality of the leathercraft submitted, but felt that the quantity of entries was small. He suggested that Craftsmen send,not one or two, but three or four entries, which would stimulate competition.
Regarding decoration, he suggested that the beauty of leather be emphasized,and that it never be completely covered with decoration. A pen set beautifully done, brought the criticism that it was over decorated, since all the surface had been completely covered with stamping.
He thought the prize winning piece "Best Entry in Show" was an example of excellent use of leather, with simplicity of line and decoration and suitability to purpose. The result - a very beautiful piece of Leathercraft.
Page 3 — PRIZE WINNERS — CANADIAN HANDICRAFTS GUILD COMPETITIONS AT THE C.N.E.
PRIZE WINNERS
CANADIAN HANDICRAFTS GUILD COMPETITIONS AT THE C.N.E.
[The prize list on this page is a four-column table — class and placing at the left, then the winner with the town on the line beneath, then the firm or committee that gave the prize, then its value. Read straight across instead of column by column, the first five lines read as a two-column table and the rest run together, welding each winner to the donor beside them and losing the $50 for Best Entry in Show, Lewiscraft’s donation to the Undecorated Leather class and the Guild’s own to the First Time Prize. The ditto marks in the donor columns stand for the donor named on the line above. It is set out below in the order the columns are meant to be read. The picture of the page above is the original, untouched.]
BEST ENTRY IN SHOW Janis Zalitis F.W. Woolworth Co.Ltd. $50 Toronto, Ont. BEST ORIGINAL ENTRY Endel Ruberg Anonymous $35 Montreal, P.Q. MOULDED LEATHER Clara Cavanagh Women's Committee, C.H.G., Toronto. $25 Barrie, Ont. FIRST TIME PRIZE WINNER Dwayne Trew Canadian Handicrafts Guild, Toronto. $25 Barrie, Ont. UNDECORATED LEATHER 1st Fred Brown Lewiscraft, Toronto $25 Toronto, Ont. 2nd Helen Wheaton " " $15 London, Ont. DECORATED LEATHER 1st Elsie Tuck Tandy Leather Co. $25 Barrie, Ont. 2nd Not awarded " " " $15
HONOURABLE MENTION:
Nora Huyck - Box Lillian Neelands - Handbag Clarice Packham - Gloves Sadie Roebuck - Humidor Endel Ruberg - Album D.G. Trew - Notebook & Pen Helen Wheaton - Tray
[Two drawings fill the lower half of the page, captioned Dwayne Trew and Endel Ruberg.]
Page 4
Janis Žalitis
Clara Cavanagh
Fred Brown
Elsie Tuck
Helen Wheaton
[This page is a sketch plate of leathercraft pieces, each captioned only with a name and no description of the piece itself, between two pages of C.N.E. prize-winner listings. The first caption prints the name with a single round mark over the Z, the same size, shape and weight as the dots over the two i's in the same word; the printing does not settle which accented letter was meant. A stray "t" is easy to read before Helen Wheaton’s name, where the page itself prints nothing.]
Page 5 — PRIZE WINNERS — CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION COMPETITIONS
PRIZE WINNERS CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION COMPETITIONS
Special Chatelaine Award $25 - Mrs. K. Cavanagh, Barrie, Ont.
Class
| 218 1st Mrs. Gladys Miles | Toronto, Ontario |
| 2nd & 3rd No award | |
| 219 1st Mrs. Noela Hodgins | Toronto, Ontario |
| 2nd Mrs. G. Miles | Toronto, Ontario |
| 3rd Miss M.E. Cheeseman | Calgary, Alberta |
| 220 1st Mr. Fred H. Harris | Oakland, California, U.S.A. |
| 2nd Mrs. G. Miles | Toronto, Ontario |
| 3rd Mrs. J. Hilder | Oxford Jct. Nova Scotia |
| 221 1st Mrs. K. Cavanagh | Barrie, Ontario |
| 2nd Mrs. Henri Lavoie | Montreal. Quebec |
| 3rd Mrs. G. Miles | Toronto, Ontario |
| 222 1st Mrs. K. Cavanagh | Barrie, Ontario |
| 2nd Miss D. Proctor | Toronto, Ontario |
| 3rd Mrs. Jean Newton | Toronto, Ontario |
| 223 1st Mrs. Thelma Terry | Toronto, Ontario |
| 2nd Mrs. D. Wallworth | Hamilton, Ontario |
| 3rd Mrs. L. J. Clarke | Hamilton, Ontario |
| 224 1st Mrs. Thelma Terry | Scarborough, Ontario |
| 2nd & 3rd No award |
The table is set out below whole; in print it is split across two plain paragraphs and a partial table.
Gladys Miles Mrs. Noela Hodgins
Two sketch-plate captions beneath photographs of the 218 and 219 first-place winners' entries; not further transcribable text.
Page 6
Clara Cavanagh
Mrs. Thelma Terry
Mr. Fred H. Harris
Clara Cavanagh
Sketches of Canadian Handicrafts Guild prize winning pieces and 1st prize winning pieces of CNE competitions by Ann Hook, F.C.S.C.L.
[Four sketches by Ann Hook — a letter-opener sheath, a pair of gloves, a second pair of gloves, and a floral handbag — illustrate 1st-prize C.N.E. winners named on p. 5: Fred H. Harris (Class 220, handbag) and Mrs. Thelma Terry (Classes 223-224, gloves). The two captioned "Clara Cavanagh" (sheath, medallion) correspond by position to Classes 221-222, printed on p. 5 as "Mrs. K. Cavanagh", Barrie, Ont. — the same town as Clara Cavanagh's other Barrie entries in this issue, but the initial does not match; the archive does not read the two as one person.]
Page 7 — PACIFIC NATIONAL EXHIBITION - 1964; Dates to Remember
PACIFIC NATIONAL EXHIBITION - 1964
[The prize list on this page is a two-column list — place and article at the left, winner and town at the right. The first five lines were read as a table and the rest run together, welding the ring binder to the navy purse and reading the second of the three "2nd" placings as "end". It is set out below in the order the columns are meant to be read. The picture of the page above is the original, untouched.]
The following members won prizes at this annual Exhibition:
Bedford cup trophy for best individual leather article — Purse Reta Larmour, Grimsby 1st Ladies' gloves Dorothy Proctor, Toronto 1st Book ends Jean Agnew, Downsview 2nd Men's gloves Clarice Packham, Weston 2nd Filigree belt Helen Wheaton, London 2nd Leather ring binder Nora Huyck, Newmarket 3rd Navy purse Jean Newton, Toronto 3rd Stationery case Clara Cavanagh, Barrie Honourable Mention Mask Harold Wilson, Hamilton Honourable Mention Gavel Anne Hook, Toronto
ALBERTACRAFT EXHIBITION - 1964
No awards were given at this Exhibition but three C.S.C.L. members had their articles chosen to go in the Travelling Craft Exhibition.
Mission grain book cover - Gladys Miles
Smoke Stand - Sadie Roebuck
Tray - Olivia Smith
Reminder: We hope many members will be aspiring for Associate or Fellow awards at our next Annual Meeting in the spring of 1965. For application forms and full information please write to: Mrs. Nora Huyck, NEWMARKET, Ontario.
Announcement: We are happy to announce that Miss Olivia Smith,
32 Mountview Avenue, Toronto 9, is now Assistant Editor of "Canadian Leathercraft". Olivia has been an active member of the Executive for many years and a Fellow since 1958. We welcome Olivia and are very glad to have her on our staff.
Dates to Remember: Annual Meeting, April 3rd, 1965 at WoodGreen
Community Centre, Toronto.
International Assembly of Leathercraftsmen,
May 7, 8, 9, 1965 at Flint, Michigan, U.S.A.
Page 8 — FLAP VARIATIONS
[This page is a diagram of bag flap variations. The plate’s own hand-lettered title is FLAP VARIATIONS and its sketches are numbered 1 to 26; it is signed Robert T Muma · 1957, with the middle initial the register does not carry, so the 1964 bulletin is reprinting a drawing of seven years earlier.]
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FLAP VARIATIONS
These drawings show flap forms for one curved and one angular type of bag. Endless variations for each flap are possible, adapted to the shape of the individual bag. The off-center flaps in 9-12 & 20-22 show the reverse position as well. Nos. 23, 24 & 26 are double flap arrangements and 25 is a triple arrangement, each flap opening up a different compartment in the bag.
