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Fine Leatherworking Courses

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Make your own Fine Leather Goods

In-Person Courses
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In-Person Courses

Hands-on courses designed to help you explore the craft of making leather goods. Choose the introductory course if you are just beginning leatherworking or if you want to try out the craft. Expand your abilities and refine your skills with the continuing class.

Drop-in Sessions

Leatherworking Fundamentals

New students start here! Learn and or improve your core techniques of making leather goods. We’ll cover hand-sewing, edge finishing, and other fundamental skills.


Dates

  • Saturday, June 14th – morning & afternoon
  • Tuesday, June 17th – evening
  • Saturday, June 28th – morning & afternoon
Join a Fundamentals Session

Drop-in Sessions

Continuing Leatherworking

Explore making leather goods further, improve your new skills, and work up to making more advanced projects and complex builds. Round out your skills and widen your repertoire.


Dates

  • Saturday, June 14th – morning & afternoon
  • Tuesday, June 17th – evening
  • Saturday, June 28th – morning & afternoon
Join a Continuing Session

Tailored

Create your custom path to leatherworking mastery. Get 1:1 lessons on the skills you need most. Start with a free 30-minute consultation to build your program.

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Online Courses

Take an online course, and choose your own timing and pace. Access your courses forever.

Updated and Expanded

Most people know him for his edges

Refining Your Leathercrafting Technique: With Hajime Niwa

Learn to deepen your technique with the help of one of the best leather goods makers today.

Join Refining Your Technique

Latest Course

The Zippered Wallet:
With Hajime Niwa

Reinforcements, zippers, and more advanced leathercrafting techniques

Join The Zippered Wallet

Prefer in-person courses? Sign up to be notified when we run the next live sessions.

Project-Focused Intensives

Tackle more advanced projects like watch straps, a tote, and wallets in our Berkeley, CA leatherworking studio. These are in-depth courses that focus on finer techniques in leatherworking. Prerequisite: Leatherworking Fundamentals


Make Your Own Custom Leather Tote

Expand your leathercraft skills and create a tote you can use every day.

Edge Finishing and Making Luxury Straps

Build a luxury watch strap and master the small details of edge finishing and strap making.

Refining Your Wallet Construction

Go beyond making simple card cases. Expand your build options and learn to make a broader range of wallets.

Join the Course

Submit our workshop request form to get started with one of our project-focused intensives today.

Join the Course

Submit our workshop request form to get started with one of our project-focused intensives today.

Join the Course

Submit our workshop request form to get started with one of our project-focused intensives today.

In-Person Week Immersion Courses

Undertake a complex project like handbags, cases, and backpacks in our weeklong immersions. If you want to make luxury leather goods, choose a week-long immersion. Prerequisite: Leatherworking Fundamentals. We also highly recommend doing one weekend intensive first.

5-6-Day Course

Bag Making Course

Focus on the essential construction skills and make a handbag in one class.

Join the Waitlist

Sign up on the waitlist and be notified when we add more dates and locations for this course.

Don’t see a course that fits your needs? Let us know what new classes you’d like to see.

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