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Clarice Packham

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Everything the Society’s own records say of Clarice Packham — 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 Clarice Packham. A biography: In Tribute →

In memoriam · July 1991

A Fellow and Life Member, living into her nineties. Co-founder of the Weston Leathercraft Guild with Edith Roscoe and Isabel Hanna, and a charter member of the CSCL on its merger; a glovemaker taught by F. O. Baird, and top judge at the CNE. Her tribute, by Nora Huyck and Gladys Riddell, was printed in the Summer 1992 newsletter.

From Summer 1992, page 8.

Certification

Associate of the CSCL 1953
Fellow of the CSCL 1955
Honorary Fellow of the CSCL 1975
Distinct from her ordinary Fellow standing, since 1955 (see her other row) -- printed as a separate honour, "Honorary Life Fellowship", given at the Society's 25th anniversary.

An early Fellow of the Society renowned as a superb glovemaker, remembered for her generosity to novice members. Dr Larmour's slides bear out her reputation as a glovemaker: gloves, a jewel box, and the gold gloves she showed at the 1955 Assembly. Two of her pieces were chosen for “Ontario Crafts – Leather Today”, the Society’s Centennial travelling exhibition: men's brown gloves and lady's gloves. The Canadian Guild of Crafts (Ontario) selected the articles; the exhibition opened at the Guild Shop on 2 October 1967 and was to travel across Canada during 1968.

From Summer 1992, page 8; The Larmour Library slide index and Librarian's Report, 1989; and Fall 1967, page 9.

Served the Society as

2nd Assembly Demonstrator 1955
C.N.E. Demonstrator 1962
Executive Council 1963–1965
11th Assembly Demonstrator 1965
27th Annual Demonstrator 1977

Honours

Honorary Life Fellowship 1975
Presented at the 25th Annual Meeting, with Edith Roscoe. She marked the day by giving a book to every member present. The letter handed to her at the presentation, reprinted in the Fall 1975 newsletter (p8), reads in part: “I am honoured to be asked to hand you this Honorary Life Fellowship to-day... If ever we saw beautiful gloves it was certain that the maker would be Clarice Packham.”

Awards

Canadian Handicraft Guild Competition 1966
Canadian Handicrafts Guild Competition First Prize 1955–1965
Canadian Handicrafts Guild Competition Honourable Mention 1955–1964
Canadian Handicrafts Guild Competition Second Prize 1958–1962
Canadian Handicrafts Guild Golden Anniversary Exhibition Honourable Mention 1956
Canadian National Exhibition, Canadian Handicrafts Guild Section 1954
Craftsman Award, 11th International Assembly 1965
Craftsman Ribbon 1967–1970
International Assembly Craftsmanship Ribbon 1964
International Assembly Salon Exhibit 1961
Ontario Souvenir and Handcraft Competition Idea 1963
Pacific National Exhibition Second Prize 1964
Salon Award 1967
Salon Award, 11th International Assembly 1965

Demonstrations given

Glove Making (at her cottage) 1965
Barrie Branch meetings, 1964-65 season
From Spring 1965, page 3.
Glove pattern and glove construction 1968
18th Annual
From Summer 1968, page 2.

Where this comes from

This name in the index of people →