This is a beginner's leather work where you will learn leather work skills you can use at home. You will learn how to:

Smooth and burnish the edges of the leather
Use a creasing tool to give them a professional finish
Attach the layers of the card case together
Use a stitching iron and hammer to make the stitch holes
Thread your needles with pre-waxed linen thread
Saddle stitch your card case
Buff and burnish the leather
Personalise the card case with initials or numbers

At the end of the class you will leave with a beautiful Italian…

Things to remember

Everything is provided for the class, but please do wear trousers. (This may seem an unusual request, but you need to sit on the clam (the piece of equipment used for the stitching) and it is only comfortable in trousers.

Coffe, tea and chilled water are available and there's…

A throughly enjoyable experience. The school is conveniently located, close to Old Street underground station, and easy to find. After a warm welcome I met the other students, a really nice bunch, and found a seat at the spacious work table. The instructor was very experienced and patient and I simply could not believe that I was able to create such a cool leather piece on my first attempt - I am an artist but do not consider myself "handy" at all, so this came as a pleasant surprise and shows just how well thought-through the course is. Highly recommended!

Private Booking

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£69

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Age Requirement

14All students under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Flexible cancellation policy

Any class can be cancelled and fully refunded within 24 hours of purchase. See cancellation policy.

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Carreducker are master handsewn shoemakers based in historic Clerkenwell, London who learned their craft the traditional way, as shoe making apprentices. Today, they make bespoke shoes for private customers and deliver the bespoke shoe service at Gieves & Hawkes on Savile Row and at James Purdey & Son in Mayfair, London.

Passionate for the heritage, handsewn craft and keen to share their skills, Carreducker have been teaching shoe making since 2006. James Ducker originally taught shoe making at Cordwainers College and Deborah Carre was a visiting lecturer in shoe and accessory design at the London College of Fashion, so teaching has always…

Carreducker Shoe & Leather School

Hoxton

50 Chocolate Studios

7 Shepherdess Place

N1 7LJ

London