Intro to Bootmaking – Session 1

In this workshop, you’ll create a pair of basic leather lace-up boots for your own feet based on personal measurements you provide in advance. Patterns will be drafted for you in accordance with these measurements.

In this challenging four-day workshop, students will learn the foundation for most theatrical or street styles of shoes and expand on the following skills:

• Discover the anatomy of a boot and learn how all the parts fit together
• Cut pieces of leather for the upper of the boots, and sew them together
• Attach insoles to the lasts and pull the leather uppers over the lasts
• Add soles and heels to the boots

The end product will be a pair of boots students can proudly wear home.

Note: Students will be required to use machinery such as industrial sewing machines and power tools. Physical dexterity is required.

Classes run 9am-5pm.