Make your own Fine Leather Goods
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, April 19th – morning & afternoon
- Tuesday, April 22nd – evening
- Saturday, May 3rd – morning & afternoon
- Tuesday, May 6th – evening
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, April 19th – morning & afternoon
- Tuesday, April 22nd – evening
- Saturday, May 3rd – morning & afternoon
- Tuesday, May 6th – evening
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.
Online Courses
Take an online course, and choose your own timing and pace. Access your courses forever.
Updated and Expanded
Refining Your Leathercrafting Technique: With Hajime Niwa
Learn to deepen your technique with the help of one of the best leather goods makers today.
Latest Course
The Zippered Wallet:
With Hajime Niwa
Reinforcements, zippers, and more advanced leathercrafting techniques
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.
Submit our workshop request form to get started with one of our project-focused intensives today.
Submit our workshop request form to get started with one of our project-focused intensives today.
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.
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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