Leather Workshop - Make a pen , secateurs or sunglasses case

This is a great class to give you a taste of leathercrafting, working with sustainable, vegetable tanned leather from Italy.

You will learn how to:

• Smooth and burnish the edges of the leather
• Use a creasing tool to give the edges a professional finish
• Glue the layers of the leather together
• Use a stitching chisel and hammer to make the stitch holes
• Thread your needles with pre-waxed linen thread
• Saddle stitch the leather
• Buff and burnish the leather

At the end of the class you will leave with a beautiful accessory made from vegetable tanned leather and the satisfaction…

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

Working with leather is a great way to turn a…