Illawarra Lapidary Club – Homepage
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Next Club Meeting
Wednesday the 15th of October 2025
Business Meeting: 7pm
Followed by our Social Meeting
(51 Meadow St, Tarrawanna)
Guests are always Welcome!
Facemasks are encouraged and social distancing is 1.5m.
Fees were due on the 1st of January 2025
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63rd Annual Exhibition – 2025
When: Sat 1st – Sun 2nd November 2025
Time: Sat 9am – 4pm and Sun 9am – 3pm
Where: The Dapto Ribbonwood Centre, Heininger Hall, 109 Princes Hwy, Dapto.
Admission: $5 per Adult and Children under 12 FREE.
There will be homemade cakes and goodies for Morning Tea and sausage Sizzle and drinks available for lunch. Stalls will be selling gemstones, Fossils, rough, minerals, handcrafted jewellery, books and more! For info about our other events, please check out the Major Events page.
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Membership fees for 2025 were due January 1st.
For membership fee information and how to join/re-apply and pay, please click here.
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lapidary – (the word means “concerned with stones”)
A person involved with lapidary 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 and wearable, items (e.g. pendants, rings etc.).
The Illawarra Lapidary Club (ILC) was established in 1962 and promotes development of knowledge and skills in the craft of Lapidary; collecting gemstones, mineral specimens, their identification, cutting or presenting as display items or as finished jewellery.
The club is a social organisation that has a number of activities for all club members.
- Fossicking for raw specimens of minerals, gemstones and fossils.
- Mineral Group of members who study the nature and composition of minerals and gem stones.
- Classes for cutting stones ie carving, faceting and cabochon. There are also classes to make finished jewellery using silver fabrication, casting, wire wrapping, lamp work bead making and enamelling.
For up to date information and general interest see our Facebook page. For inquiries about the club and its activities, please use the club email address.
Emails and Facebook are reviewed regularly.
Business and Social meetings are held in the clubrooms in Tarrawanna and commence at 7.00pm (General business) and 8.00pm (Social) on the Third Wednesday of each month January to November. No December meeting.
A 50th Anniversary booklet is available for purchase from the club ($10 per copy).