Duration and hours: 2 days 10am - 4.30pm

Maximum 4 students

Book: Email us to arrange a date

Location: SW London

Introduction

This intensive two-day course will give you an understanding of the essential practical skills needed to make a Derby and a Brogue pattern, laying a solid foundation for future pattern-making.

Learning from a bespoke professional is an invaluable opportunity, as a well-fitting pattern is crucial to achieving the perfect shoe fit—something that can't be overstated in the world of high-quality footwear.

The Derby is a wardrobe staple and the foundation for many popular shoe and boot style, making this course an essential step for anyone looking to master timeless footwear patterns.

Course description

Working on the last, you will make a full set of patterns (including linings) for a Derby and Brogue.

Expertise

The class is taught by industry expert Fiona Campbell, MA who teaches the professional pattern maker's techniques through demonstration, trial and guidance including:

Learn to tape the last

Mark the guide points

Draw on the shoe design

Take off the inside and outside forme

Make the standard

Use the standard to make the pattern pieces for a simple Derby shoe

Materials

All materials provided

See our full Terms & Conditions here.

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Duration and hours: 2 days 10am - 4.30pm

Maximum 4 students

Book: Email us to arrange a date

Location: SW London

Introduction

This intensive two-day course will give you an understanding of the essential practical skills needed to make an Oxford and a Brogue pattern, laying a solid foundation for future pattern-making.

Learning from a bespoke professional is an invaluable opportunity, as a well-fitting pattern is crucial to achieving the perfect shoe fit—something that can't be overstated in the world of high-quality footwear.

The Oxford is a wardrobe staple and the foundation for many popular shoe and boot style, making this course an essential step for anyone looking to master timeless footwear patterns.

Course description

Working on the last, you will make a full set of patterns (including linings) for an Oxford and Brogue.

Expertise

The class is taught by industry expert Fiona Campbell, MA who teaches the professional pattern maker's techniques through demonstration, trial and guidance including:

Learn to tape the last

Mark the guide points

Draw on the shoe design

Take off the inside and outside forme

Make the standard

Use the standard to make Oxford and Brogue pattern pieces

Materials

All materials provided

See our full Terms & Conditions here.

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The Derby is a wardrobe essential and the basis for so many popular shoe and boot designs. This two-parter of videos + course will equip you with the skills and techniques to transform your Derby shoe and boot designs into well-fitting patterns.

The videos will give you the essential skills to create a Derby shoe pattern, which you will then have the chance to embed on the two-day boot pattern making class, working under expert guidance.

Expertise

The pattern making courses and the shoe making videos are lead by expert practitioner Fiona Campbell, MA sharing her decades of industry experience and the specialist tools and techniques that she uses to make bespoke shoe and boot patterns.

Derby Shoe Pattern Making Videos

The three videos in the Derby shoe pattern making series walk you at a gentle pace through the details of:

Module 1: Taping the last, marking the guide points and drawing on the design; duration: 37 minutes

Module 2: Taking the design from the last and making the standard; duration: 13 mins

Module 3: Making the pattern pieces from the standard; duration 18 mins

(Please email school@carreducker.com after you have checked out to receive the video downloads)

The aim is that you watch and p[ractice pattern making from the videos before joining Fiona for the face-to-face class, so that you can familiarise yourself with the practice.

Derby Boot Pattern Making Class

Following on from the video series this two-day in-person class will enhance the practical skills that you have learned from the videos as you make a Derby boot pattern, providing a strong foundation for future pattern making. Well-fitting patterns are essential for a good fit, so the opportunity to pick up tips and techniques from a bespoke professional are invaluable. Through demonstration and guidance, you will tape the last, draw on the boot design, make the boot standard and make the pattern pieces for a Derby boot.

Tailored tuition

• The class times are flexible, delivered over two full days from 10am - 4.15pm
• Located in SW London

Materials

All materials provided

See our full Terms & Conditions here.

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The Derby Shoe is a wardrobe essential and the basis for so many popular shoe and boot designs. This video series is broken down into three modules:

Module 1: Taping the last, marking the guide points and drawing on the design

Module 2: Taking the design from the last and making the standard

Module 3: Making the pattern pieces from the standard

Module 1, 2 & 3

Creating an accurate, well-fitting pattern is essential to creating well-proportioned, well-fitting uppers.

In this trio of videos you will learn how to:

• Tape up the last
• Design onto the last
• Make the standard
• Use the standard to make pattern pieces for the upper and lining.

Expertise

The course is taught by industry expert Fiona Campbell, MA who teaches the specialist pattern maker’s techniques that she uses to make bespoke shoe and boot patterns.

Video Spec.

Module: 1 run time: 37mins

Module 2: run time: 13 mins

Module 3: run time: tbc

Download at checkout

See our full Terms & Conditions here.

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The Derby Shoe is a wardrobe essential and the basis for so many popular shoe and boot designs. This video series is broken down into three modules:

Module 1: Taping the last, marking the guide points and drawing on the design

Module 2: Taking the design from the last and making the standard

Module 3: Making the pattern pieces from the standard

Module 3: COMING SOON

Creating an accurate, well-fitting pattern is essential to creating well-proportioned, well-fitting uppers.

In this video you will learn how to use the standard to make pattern pieces for the upper and lining.

Expertise

The course is taught by industry expert Fiona Campbell, MA who teaches the specialist pattern maker’s techniques that she uses to make bespoke shoe and boot patterns.

Video Spec.

Modules:  3 of 3
Run time: Tbc
Download at checkout

See our full Terms & Conditions here.

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The Derby Shoe is a wardrobe essential and the basis for so many popular shoe and boot designs. This video series is broken down into three modules:

Module 1: Taping the last, marking the guide points and drawing on the design

Module 2: Taking the design from the last and making the standard

Module 3: Making the pattern pieces from the standard

Module 2: The Standard

Creating an accurate, well-fitting pattern is essential to creating well-proportioned, well-fitting uppers.

In this video you will learn how to:

• Take the formes from the last
• Make the standard
• Add the lasting allowance
• Create the stiffener pocket
• Mark the inside and outside formes
• Mark the stay stitch

Expertise

The course is taught by industry expert Fiona Campbell, MA who teaches the specialist pattern maker’s techniques that she uses to make bespoke shoe and boot patterns.

Video Spec.

Modules:  2 of 3
Run time: 13.3 mins
Download at checkout

See our full Terms & Conditions here.

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The Derby Shoe is a wardrobe essential and the basis for so many popular shoe and boot designs. This video series is broken down into three modules:

Module 1: Taping the last, marking the guide points and drawing on the design

Module 2: Taking the design from the last and making the standard

Module 3: Making the pattern pieces from the standard

Module 1:

Creating an accurate, well-fitting pattern is essential to creating well-proportioned, well-fitting uppers. In this video you will learn:

• About the tools used in pattern making
• The terminology used to describe the last
• How to tape up the last
• Where to mark the key guide points
• How to design onto the last

Expertise

The course is taught by industry expert Fiona Campbell, MA who teaches the specialist pattern maker’s techniques that she uses to make bespoke shoe and boot patterns.

Video Spec.

Modules:  1 of 3
Run time: 37 minutes
Download at checkout

See our full Terms & Conditions here.

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CLASS CONTENT

This heritage shoe making course is designed for complete beginners. In a small group and relaxed and friendly atmosphere, we will guide you through the 200+ steps in the heritage shoe making process - lasting, welting, stitching on a sole, building leather heels and then finishing the shoes, all by hand. At the end, you will proudly walk away with a pair of shoes that you have made yourself!

GROUP SIZE

Up to 6 students, so there is plenty of individual guidance and attention

TIME

In terms of 10 weeks:

Monday evenings 6 - 9pm

Saturday mornings 10 - 1pm

Saturday afternoon 2 - 5pm

Please note: it takes approx. 3 terms to finish a pair of shoes / approx. 1 - 2 terms to finish a pair of sneakers

LOCATION

Studio 1.20, Oxo Tower Wharf, London SE1 9PH

(Nearest London underground and National Rail stations: Waterloo, Waterloo East, Embankment, Blackfriars Bridge and Southwark)

FEE

Classes costs £535 per 10-week term to make a pair of plain Oxford, Derby or Wholecut shoes or a pair of leather sneakers. There is a small surcharge for broguing, rubber soles, sneaker soles and boots.

*As a Carreducker shoemaking student, you receive a 10% discount on tools and materials that you buy from the Supplies Shop.

TERM DATES

Spring: January - March

Summer:  April - July

Autumn: October - December

[caption id="attachment_15821" align="alignnone" width="1489"] Here's some of our wonderful students and their shoes.[/caption]

CHOOSING YOUR STYLE

For your first pair of handsewn leather shoes arrange to come to visit us at Oxo Tower Wharf to try on shoes for size; then choose what you would like to make.

For sneakers, tell us your usual UK sneaker size, choose a colour and send us an outline drawing of your foot.

Drawing around your feet:

To draw around your feet, you'll need an assistant. Stand on a flat, hard surface, in the socks you will wear with your shoes, with your weight evenly balanced. Ask your assistant to draw around your feet, using an HB pencil. They should run the pencil around the outline of your feet, holding it vertical at all times. They then need to draw in a line at the heel and inside waist, by angling the pencil in against the foot to draw a curved line where the heel touches the paper and at 45 degrees on the inside wasit of the foot (the arch).

STYLE: The different styles are a Derby, Oxford or Wholecut shoe; Sneakers; or a Derby boot

[caption id="attachment_20180" align="alignnone" width="300"] Plain Derby shoe with metal eyelets [/caption]

[caption id="attachment_20211" align="alignnone" width="300"] Derby shoe with a straight toecap and brogue punch detailing[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_20200" align="alignnone" width="300"] Plain Oxford shoe[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_20193" align="alignnone" width="300"] Brogue Oxford shoe with a straight toecap[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_19183" align="alignnone" width="300"] Wholecut shoe[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_20977" align="alignnone" width="300"] Handsewn sneakers[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_867" align="alignnone" width="300"] Plain Derby boot with eyelets and ski hooks[/caption]

TOE SHAPE: You can choose from a round or oval toe shape (sneakers are made on a sneaker last with a rounded toe).

COLOUR(S): Choose your shoe colour either from our core collection (see below) including black, dark brown, brown, tan, burgundy, navy or white

or choose an alternative +£30 per colour

DETAILS: Choose from blind or antique brass metal eyelets; add a straight toecap; add brogue punch hole detailing on the seams

EXTRAS

All the materials you will need are provided and your fee includes the cost of your shoe uppers (for first time Carreducker students only), but there are small additional charges for certain styles, please see below.

+£50 for brogueing

+£50 to make a pair of plain Derby boots

+£114 to make a pair of brogued Derby boots

+£80 to have the sneakers finished professionally with a flexible, white or black rubber sole

+ £150 for shoe trees, which can be personalised with your name or initials

Once you have made one pair of shoes with us, you can go on to make any shoe or low boot style of your choosing on the same last; or bring along your own lasts and we will have the uppers made for you.

The fee for subsequent pairs of uppers, depends on the chosen style, detailing and leather, but starts at £120 for a pair of plain Derby shoe uppers.

NEXT STEPS

Spaces are available throughout the year as students finish making their shoes, so you can start at any time if we have a place. Simply email us to let us know which start date and evening /morning you would prefer. Then we will arrange for you to pop into our workshop to choose your shoe size, style, colour and detailing so we're all set for when you start.

See our full Terms & Conditions here.

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