Photo Gallery
4,389 photographs of the Society’s conventions, competitions, workshops and members’ craft, most of them taken by members, grouped into albums by occasion.
Start with the annual conventions, or with the Virtual Competitions of 2021–2025, where every entry is shown with its maker’s own description. The films at the foot of the page show demonstrations and convention life. Pictures printed in the newsletters stay with their issues, under The Newsletter.
Annual Conventions & Meetings
Photographs from the Society’s Annual weekends, 2002–2023, with additional albums from members’ cameras; no album survives for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 or 2025. The Virtual Competitions of 2021–2025 are below.
Virtual Competitions, 2021–2025
In its final years the Society judged members’ work by photograph: 87 entries, with the makers’ own descriptions.
Workshops & Guild Life
Meetings, demonstrations, potlucks and classes, chiefly of the Mississauga Branch, which called itself the Mississauga Society of Creative Leathercraft (MSCL).
Members’ Projects & Techniques
Individual works and how they were made.
Films from the Society
17 films of demonstrations, workshops and convention life, 12 of them hosted on YouTube.
Leather Block Dyeing — discussion & workshop, CSCL Annual 2016
Sean Dalgetty and Lauch Harrison lead a discussion and workshop on leather block dyeing. Long and unhurried, as much a record of the friendly atmosphere of the guild as a set of instructions.
A Spot of Colour — part 1 · CSCL Annual 2014
Demonstration on composition and colour with Desiree Kern: spirit dyes and acrylic paint to get just the shade you want, with tricks of the trade from a professional artist.
A Spot of Colour — part 2 · CSCL Annual 2014
Demonstration on composition and colour with Desiree Kern, continued.
Rex Lingwood — “Heat Forming” demonstration, part 1
Internationally known leather sculptor Rex Lingwood demonstrates heat forming of a leather bowl. 65th Annual Convention, May 2, 2015, Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario.
Rex Lingwood — “Heat Forming” demonstration, part 2
Rex Lingwood — “Heat Forming” demonstration, part 3
Rex Lingwood — “Heat Forming” demonstration, part 4
“How to Make Your Dragon” — James Wilkes
Presentation at the 65th Annual Convention, May 1, 2015. The workshop was originally created by leather artist Roz Kaohn of the Springfield, Missouri guild.
Workshop registration displays — CSCL Annual 2015
The registration displays at the 65th Annual Convention Weekend, May 1–2, 2015, Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario.
Paul Kitchener — introduction to leathercraft, part 1
Paul Kitchener — introduction to leathercraft, part 2
Magic Box — leather carving & tooling of a Celtic Tree of Life
A leather cube with no visible lock: a Celtic Tree of Life with falling leaves marks each side like a die, and a microcontroller with a 3-D accelerometer reads the turning sequence that unlocks it. Carved leather outside, soft deerskin within.
Members' leatherwork for the Burr House show, 2019 (1)
Bags, carved panels and cases by members whose work was shown at the Burr House Artisans Gallery, Richmond Hill, 9 February – 3 March 2019.
Sean Dalgetty and Lauch Harrison, 66th Annual, May 2016
Sean Dalgetty and Lauch Harrison at the 66th Annual Convention, just before the dinner.
Dyeing and colouring, Mississauga Branch, September 2017
The Mississauga Branch's meeting of 6 September 2017, one of its monthly mini workshops: Paul Kitchener discusses antiques and dyes.
Colouring, tooling and carving, Mississauga Branch, October 2017
Paul Kitchener presented the Mississauga Branch's meeting of October 2017, on colouring techniques and tooling against carving.
Tablet cover workshop, Mississauga Branch, January 2018
Paul Kitchener presented the Mississauga Branch's workshop of 21 January 2018: a leather tablet cover or iPad case with a decorative accent.
Photographs in the Photo Gallery are free to reuse for non-commercial purposes, with credit to the Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft archive (CC BY-NC 4.0). How to use and credit them