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Mississauga Branch meeting and workshop: leather mache, covering bottles

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Joyce Scruton showed the Mississauga branch how to cover bottles with scraps of leather, and how they might be painted afterwards. The branch's report calls it her last demonstration and remembers her “wound up and really enjoying doing what she liked best passing on information of her knowledge of leather and her tricks of the trade.” She died in October 2015; the report prints the year as 2016, but the Society's Executive recorded her death in its October 2015 minutes and the Editor's report to the 67th Annual Meeting gives October 2015. The following month the branch kept a minute's silence for her. The branch's own report of its year, in the 66th Annual Meeting Reports (2016), page 13: “October: Joyce Scruton showed how to cover bottles with scraps of leather and made suggestions on how to paint them after. Sorry to say this was Joyce's last demonstration as she passed away on October 17, 2016.”

A woman and two men sit at a meeting table with papers during a leather mache workshop
A woman and two men sit at a meeting table with papers during a leather mache workshop
Members gather around a table of crumpled wet leather and glue at a leather mache workshop
Members gather around a table of crumpled wet leather and glue at a leather mache workshop
Members in gloves work glued scraps of leather at a table covered in brown paper
Members in gloves work glued scraps of leather at a table covered in brown paper
A man in a patterned shirt holds up a brush while talking beside shelves of supplies
A man in a patterned shirt holds up a brush while talking beside shelves of supplies
A man in gloves holds up a soft piece of wet leather as a woman holds a covered bottle
A man in gloves holds up a soft piece of wet leather as a woman holds a covered bottle
A man in blue gloves brushes glue onto leather pieces while two members work behind him
A man in blue gloves brushes glue onto leather pieces while two members work behind him
A smiling man leans on his hand at a meeting table
A smiling man leans on his hand at a meeting table
A woman presses leather scraps onto a bottle at a workbench with glue and a mug
A woman presses leather scraps onto a bottle at a workbench with glue and a mug
A man applies glue to small leather pieces from a bowl, scraps of leather beside him
A man applies glue to small leather pieces from a bowl, scraps of leather beside him
A woman cuts up soft leather scraps at a table set with glue bottles for a leather mache workshop
A woman cuts up soft leather scraps at a table set with glue bottles for a leather mache workshop
A woman glues pieces of leather at the table while a gloved hand works in the foreground
A woman glues pieces of leather at the table while a gloved hand works in the foreground
A man sits at a table with a notebook, a sports car poster on the wall behind him
A man sits at a table with a notebook, a sports car poster on the wall behind him
A man and a woman sit at a table, thread cones on shelves behind them
A man and a woman sit at a table, thread cones on shelves behind them
Two men in gloves glue torn leather pieces onto bottles at a covered table
Two men in gloves glue torn leather pieces onto bottles at a covered table
A man in blue gloves holds a bottle partly covered in leather pieces and talks
A man in blue gloves holds a bottle partly covered in leather pieces and talks
Four members work on leather-covered bottles around a table with glue and water bottles
Four members work on leather-covered bottles around a table with glue and water bottles
A woman presses torn leather onto a bottle in her lap during the leather mache workshop
A woman presses torn leather onto a bottle in her lap during the leather mache workshop
A man in blue gloves leans over the table working on a leather-covered bottle
A man in blue gloves leans over the table working on a leather-covered bottle
A man pours from a large glue bottle beside him as he covers a bottle with leather pieces
A man pours from a large glue bottle beside him as he covers a bottle with leather pieces
A man in purple gloves applies glue to a bottle while a woman works beside him
A man in purple gloves applies glue to a bottle while a woman works beside him
A man and a woman smile as they hold up bottles covered in leather mache
A man and a woman smile as they hold up bottles covered in leather mache
A man in a patterned shirt holds a bottle at a counter in the meeting room
A man in a patterned shirt holds a bottle at a counter in the meeting room
Two men stand at a curved counter with bottles and a printed handout in front of them
Two men stand at a curved counter with bottles and a printed handout in front of them
A man in purple gloves glues leather pieces onto a bottle while a woman works across the table
A man in purple gloves glues leather pieces onto a bottle while a woman works across the table
A man in blue gloves works leather mache from a small bowl at the table
A man in blue gloves works leather mache from a small bowl at the table

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