Parchment Craft Guild News

The Parchment Craft Guild News

Results of April Exams Posted on 13 July 2010

	Affiliate	Associate	Graduate	Fellow
Member No.	1104	330	230
	1129	800	349
	1131	1072	284
	1167	1093	756
	1171	1108	858
	1195		980
			1008
			1136

Hints and Tips Booklet

Parchment Craft Guild Hints and Tips Book for Examination Candidates

Editor’s Note

The Parchment Craft Guild comprises a group of parchment craft enthusiasts dedicated to promoting excellence within the craft. Full membership is achieved by work assessment in exams open to anyone wishing to gain recognition of skill. The examination pieces are carefully selected, by acknowledged experts in the craft who are Guild members, to demonstrate a range of skills and use of tools available for the craft, at different levels of achievement. As different techniques and tools are developed so the exam pieces have changed over time to reflect this, yet at the same time care is taken to avoid losing techniques that are no longer as popular as they were. Feedback from the judges, and the marks awarded for each piece of work highlight areas of good technique and indicate where improvement is needed. Often the judges will give tips on how to achieve this and each Guild newsletter includes a selection of hints and tips on technique from the current round of exam papers. This booklet is the collected hints and tips from the first twelve years of the Guild together with technique articles, most of which have also been published in the newsletter. It is aimed at those who are planning to submit exam papers, but the advice is helpful for all parchment crafters.

Note: some points may appear to be repetitive but each provides a slightly different slant on the topic which I feel justifies the inclusion of both.

Acknowledgements -

Special thanks must go to the Fellows and Graduates of the Guild, who freely give their time to marking exam papers and providing the feedback which has been the basis of this booklet. As the process is anonymous they can never receive personal acknowledgement for a difficult task.

Thanks must also go to named Guild Members, who have provided articles for the newsletters which have been updated and reproduced here, and particularly to Pat Hosking for her humorous verses.

Apologies are offered if I have omitted to appropriately credit anyone with a contribution used in this booklet. It is entirely unintentional.

To purchase the booklet, click here.

Group Public Liability Insurance for Guild

The Guild now has group public liability insurance. This covers all Guild members and volunteers who help at Guild events by carrying out tasks at the request of the Guild. It does not cover members' or volunteers' personal activities. It is up to individual members to check out and organise their own personal cover. As a guild we cannot make any recommendations; we should warn you that some members who teach at home have reported that they have been told that their household insurances may be invalidated by taking out this type of cover.

Online Payment Facilities

We are pleased to announce that online payment facilities are now available to overseas members only, for payment of annual membership fees and online orders for exam papers. A surcharge of £1 per item will be added. To pay by credit card, please go to: http://buy.kingfishercrafts.co.uk/shop/shop.php?page=1&c1=Parchment%20Craft%20Guild

Discounts

The following craft shops offer 10% discount to Guild members*:

Centagraph

18 Station Parade, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 1UE.
Free Phone: (0800) 3285237
Website: www.centagraph.co.uk.

Please refer to the backing card that came with your membership card for the code to enter for your discount

Wightcat Crafts
14 Carisbrooke Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1BL.
Telephone: (01983) 527525
Email: parchment@wightcat.com

On-line ordering for discounted orders is not yet available. Telephone or email for details.

Parchment Worldwide
Morbihan, Brittany, France.
Telephone: 02 97651406
Email: Karen.shaw@orange.fr
Website: www.parchment-worldwide.com

Specialises only in parchment craft tools and materials (PCA & Pergamano). Platform is offered for new designers to promote their patterns. Also available, distance learning courses PCA® Authorised Worldwide Parchment Diploma, Advanced Diploma and Instructor’s Diploma.

* This facility is only available for Guild members and should not be used for friends, etc. Any abuse may result in the discount being withdrawn. Goods will only be despatched to the address that corresponds with Guild information held by the corresponding companies.