Karla Van Horne

The Society’s records

Everything the Society’s own records say of Karla Van Horne: the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won. Where the records are silent, so is this part of the page.

Also recorded as Karla VanHorne

Standing

Society Member 1997

Branch

Hamilton · recorded holding office in 1988

Certification

• Associate of the CSCL 1985
  Certificate of Associate standing presented by Fred Brown, President of the Council of Fellows, at the 35th Annual Meeting, 27 April 1985, alongside Ruth Haig's Fellow standing.
• Fellow of the CSCL 1987
  Presented by Ruth Haig, acting Chairman of the Council of Fellows in Dorothy Muma's absence, at the 37th Annual Meeting, 1987. The 1997 Annual Report's President's Message says she “came back as a member and was granted full membership with Fellows standing this year”; her Fellow standing is dated 1987 (by a member's answer to the archive's questionnaire).

A member of the Society whose work featured among the standouts on the Annual display tables. Three pieces chosen for the Society’s 1985 Travelling Exhibition, from about sixty entries, by the judges Robert Muma, Paul Williams and Alison Parsons: a covered shoehorn with a braided handle, a cowhide belt with saddle-stitched decoration, and a cowhide-covered canteen. Karla Van Horne 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 (Knife Sheath - Tooled, Natural; Pen Case - Tooled, Natural; Stacked Leather Screwdriver). She wrote some thirty pieces for The Leather Craftsman in 1986–90, six Tandy Doodle Pages, and articles for The Leather Crafters & Saddlers Journal in 1995, 2001 and 2025–26, and the book Elements: How to Draw Floral Elements; the 2025–26 articles and the book came after she had left the Society (see Members in print).

From Spring 2010, page 2; Fall 1985, page 4; and Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art, Exhibition Programme, Woodstock Museum, page 5.

Served the Society as

• 2nd Vice-President 1987–1988
• Recording Secretary 1985–1986
• Secretary 1986
• Hamilton Branch President 1988

Awards

• Anne Hook Memorial Award for Best Colour Work 1986
• Craftsman Ribbon 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1999, 2000
• Irva Ford Award 1984
• Mary Zatyko Award 1998
• Moore-Pearsall Award 1998
• Moore-Pearsall Award for Best Box 1986
• Salon Award 1985, 1986
• Salon Ribbon 1999
• Special Table 1985

Demonstrations given

• Figure Carving 1985
  35th Annual

  From 35th Annual Meeting 1985: programme, The Continental Inn, Barrie.

• Straps & Handles (Part I) 1986
  36th Annual

  From 36th Annual Meeting 1986: programme, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland).

• Straps & Handles (Part II) 1986
  36th Annual

  From 36th Annual Meeting 1986: programme, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland).

• Butt Stitching and 45 Degree Angle Stitching 1988
  38th Annual

  From 38th Annual Meeting 1988: programme, The Royal Resort, Rosedale.

• Working with Antler and Bone 1988
  38th Annual

  From 38th Annual Meeting 1988: programme, The Royal Resort, Rosedale.

Where this comes from

• Summer 1985
• Fall 1985
• Spring 1986
• Summer 1986
• Fall 1986
• Winter 1986–87
• Summer/Fall 1987
• Winter 1987–88
• Spring 1988
• Winter 1997–98
• Summer 1998
• Summer 1999
• Spring/Summer 2000
• Spring 2010
• 35th Annual Meeting 1985: programme, The Continental Inn, Barrie
• 36th Annual Meeting 1986: programme, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland)
• 38th Annual Meeting 1988: programme, The Royal Resort, Rosedale
• Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art, Exhibition Programme, Woodstock Museum
• Society membership list, 1997