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Bill Whittingham

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Everything the Society’s own records say of Bill Whittingham — the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won — gathered on one page. Where the records are silent, so is this one.

This is the Society’s own record of Bill Whittingham. A biography: A Profile, 1994 →

In memoriam · 9 September 2018 (b. 1957)

A member whose estate left tools and a bequest to the Society. The date is the Society's own notice, canadian-leathercraft-summer-2018-quarterly-newsletter-by-cscl p3 ("In Memory of William Whittingham 1957 - 2018, Date Of Death: Sunday, September 9, 2018").

From Summer 2018, page 3.

Also recorded as Bill Whittington, William H. G. Whittingham, William H.G. Whittingham, William Whittingham

Standing

Society Member 1988–1997

Branch

Mississauga · first recorded holding office in 1988

Certification

Associate of the CSCL 1993
Fellow of the CSCL 1995

A member of the Society. A 1994 Society profile fills in his path into the craft: hired in 1985 as an assistant manager at a Tandy Leather store and taught to leathercraft on the job, he was managing his own store within five weeks and went on to teach the craft in hospitals, schools, homes for the aged and prisons. He joined CSCL in 1987 and, among his commissioned pieces, made a leather chess board with thirty-two double-sided figurines based on Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings". He placed First in the craft division of the Visual Art Mississauga Valentine Show in 1993, for a leather jewellery box. He served as a President of the Society around its 50th anniversary (2000). He showed one piece at Leather 2004, the Society's biennial juried exhibition at the Hamilton Public Library, 55 York Boulevard, 2-30 November 2004, with the Toronto guild. His estate later left tools and a bequest to the Society for the benefit of its members. He showed three pieces at Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art, the Society’s exhibition in the Grand Hall Gallery of the Woodstock Museum, 466 Dundas St., 20 May to 17 June 2000 (Lizard Skin Inlay Belt; Leather Mache Vase; Molded Mask “Serenity”). He won the Society's Executive Award for Most Functional Article at its 1994 Bi-ennial Exhibition, for an inverted-design vanity mirror, and made a square for the CSCL Leather Quilt. The Society's papers print him both as Bill and as William Whittingham — the spring 1995 newsletter credits the same vanity mirror to “William Whittingham” on one page and “Bill Whittingham” on the next — and he signed his articles and his President's letters “William H. G. Whittingham”. He wrote “Leather Mache ‘Pottery’” (2000) and “Inlay Trophy Buckle” (2001) for The Leather Crafters & Saddlers Journal (see Members in print on the Links page).

From Winter/Spring 1995, page 2; Bill Whittingham — a profile of the award-winning craftsman, 1994; 40th Annual Meeting 1990 — programme, Elmhurst Inn, Ingersoll, page 17; Leather 2004 — Juried Biennial Exhibition, Hamilton Public Library, page 3; Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art — Exhibition Programme, Woodstock Museum, page 3; Fall 1998, page 2; and Fall 1997, page 1.

Served the Society as

President 1997–1999
Past President 2000–2001
2nd Vice-President 1990–1997
Mississauga Branch Projects Coordinator 1988
Director 1989–1997
Mississauga Branch Program Coordinator 1989
Mississauga Branch President 1990–1997
Mississauga Branch Membership/Program Convenor/Librarian 1992
Chairman, Council of Fellows 2000–2003
Chairman of the Council of Fellows 2001
Past Pres. 2001
Membership 2002–2003
Director, Membership 2003

Awards

Best in Show 1994–1995
CSCL Executive Award 1994
CSCL Judges Special Award 2000
Craftsman Ribbon 1987–2002
Irva Ford Award 1992–2000
Irva Ford Award (molded leather) 1995
Michigan Soft Leather Award 1998
Robert Muma Award 2001
Salon Award 1992
Salon Ribbon 1989–2002
Zalitis Pin 1993

Demonstrations given

How to make Money from Scrap Leather 1989
39th Annual
From 39th Annual Meeting 1989 — programme, Nottawasaga Inn, Alliston.
Colour Dye & Dry Brush 1991
41st Annual
From 41st Annual Meeting 1991 — programme, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland).
Tool Sharpening 1992
Workshop, 1992
From 42nd Annual Meeting 1992 — programme, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland).
Leather bottell making (pattern, stitching, filling and sealing with beeswax) 1995
Workshop, 1995
From Summer 1995, page 7.
Workshop (afternoon session) 1997
47th Annual
From Summer 1997, page 5.
Double and triple dying demonstration (Tan-Kote resist on belt samples) 1998
48th Annual
From Summer 1998, page 9.
Spray dying demonstration using skiver 1999
49th Annual
From Summer 1999, page 6.
Colouring Techniques (workshop demonstration) 2000
50th Anniversary Annual
From Spring & Summer 2000, page 5.
Inlay Notepads workshop (Saturday and Sunday sessions) 2001
51st Annual
From Spring 2001, page 7.
Celtic Knot design using Garnett Dyes (Sunday demonstration) 2002
52nd Annual
From Summer 2002, page 3.

Where this comes from

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