The Society’s Records

Karla Van Horne

← People of the Society · on record 1984–2000

Everything the Society’s own records say of Karla Van Horne — 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 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. This is ten years earlier than the register's other Fellow record for her (since 1997, from the 1997 Annual Report's President's Message: "came back as a member and was granted full membership with Fellows standing this year"). Both are contemporary and both are clear on their own page; the two records stand separately. Read together they suggest she left the Society after 1987 and was reinstated to Fellow standing on returning in 1997, but that is not stated on either page — flagged, not decided.
Fellow of the CSCL 1997

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 on the Links page).

From Spring 2010, page 2; Fall 1985, page 4; and Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art — Exhibition Programme, Woodstock Museum, page 3.

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 1984–2000
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

This name in the index of people →