The Illawarra Lapidary Club promotes the development of knowledge and skills in the craft of lapidary , collecting gemstones and mineral specimens, identifying these and processing them into jewellery and display items.


What  is Lapidary ?
lapidary (the word means "concerned with stones") is an artisan who practices the craft of working, forming and finishing stone, mineral, gemstones, and other suitably durable materials (amber, shell, jet, pearl, copal, coral, horn and bone, glass and other synthetics) into functional and/or decorative, even wearable, items (e.g. cameos, cabochons, and more complex facetted designs). The adjectival term is also extended to refer to such arts.

The club is a social organisation concerned with lapidary work, fossicking, and the collection and study of gemstones, minerals and fossils

Our Business and Social meetings are held in the clubrooms and commence at 7.30pm.

• Business Meetings- First Wednesday each month
• Social Meetings- Third Wednesday each month
• Rock Swap-Stuart Park, on last Sunday, February
• Gem & Mineral Fair-Ribbonwood Centre, Dapto
• First weekend in November
• Club luncheons-three each year
• Open Day-Clubrooms April or May
• Mineral Group- regular meetings at Clubrooms
• Christmas Party-second Sunday in December
• Classes in lapidary work in Clubrooms
  
  PO BOX 15, WOLLONGONG NSW 2520.
  
  CLUBROOMS; TARRAWANNA COMMUNITY HALL,
  51 MEA DOW ST, TARRAWANNA 

 

PRESIDENT: HILLY CORRIS: 42763426.   
SECRETARY: ROSE COOK:    42293691
TREASURER: GEOFF IRWIN :    EMAIL;  Geoffrey@1earth.net