Alf Bjørnar Luneborg
← People of the Society · on record 2022
Everything the Society’s own records say of Alf Bjørnar Luneborg — the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won — gathered on one page. Where the records are silent, so is this one.
Also recorded as Alf Bjornar, Alf Bjornar Luneborg
Branch
Member-at-Large · member since 2016
The Society's Member-at-Large in Norway, and publisher of a European leathercraft magazine. He visited Ontario in January 2015, touring Tundra Leather and meeting the sculptor Rex Lingwood, and wrote an article on the Pompadur bag for the Society's newsletter in 2022. His Winter Hat was entered in the Society's 72nd Virtual Annual Leatherwork Competition (2022) and a matchstick holder in 2023, the latter made from leather he had obtained from the wreck of the ship Metta Catharina, salvaged off the coast of England after some 200 years, according to the Society's own Members-at-Large final report (May 2026). He wrote six articles for The Leather Crafters & Saddlers Journal from 2019 to 2024 (see Members in print on the Links page).
From September–December 2022; and Members-at-Large — Final Newsletter Report, page 2.
Served the Society as
- Member-at-Large 2022
Work shown in competition
- Winter Hat 2022
- Ship Metta Catharina 2023
- Drumstick bag 2024
Demonstrations given
- A Norwegian living in Sweden, retired after 20 years in the leather industry and publisher of a European leather-crafting magazine. Madeleine Mitchell's 8-year correspondent, touring Ontario CSCL members and meeting Rex Lingwood, Nancy Durham, Sean Dalgetty, Jim Wilkes, Paul Kitchener, and Eugene Pik. Not a CSCL member. 2015
Cross-country tour of CSCL members and shops, arranged by Madeleine Mitchell (first meeting at Rex Lingwood's home, then Nancy Durham's Princeton workshop, Tundra Leather in Hamilton, Paul Kitchener's home, Niagara Falls, and the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto)From Winter 2014–2015, page 4.