Lapidary clubs

Lapidary clubs

Lapidary clubs promote popular interest and education in lapidary, the craft of working, forming and finishing stone, minerals and gemstones. These clubs sponsor and provide means for their members to engage in all forms of jewellery making, cabachon cutting and faceting, carving, glass beadmaking and craft work. The clubs also promote and facilitate healthy outdoor activities in the form of field trips to various fossicking locations for the purpose of collecting gemstones or mineral specimens. Lapidary is particularly popular in the United States of America and Australia where large numbers of clubs were formed in the 1950s and 1960s.

External links

* [http://lapidaryclub.com.au/ClubsShows/ClubDirectory/tabid/54/Default.aspx Australian lapidary club directory]
* [http://www.lapidaryworld.com/ Lapidary World]
* [http://www.the-vug.com/vug/vugclubs.html The Vug - Mineral and Lapidary Clubs Sorted by State]
* [http://www.lapidaryjournal.com/feature/798str.cfm/ Article - Lapidaries Take the Floor by June Culp Zeitner]


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