Make Your Own Shoes – 1-Day Hand Lasting Workshop

THE CLASS

Why not learn to make your own shoes from the experts? This is a great way to start. On this one-day shoe making course for complete beginners you will learn one of the most important elements of heritage shoe making, hand lasting.

Hand lasting is the stage of pulling the leather shoe upper over the last (the forms that the shoes are made on) and securing it in place first with nails and then contact cement. It is one of the most important, because a hand lasted shoe has a beautiful shape, exactly following the contours of the last.

At the end of the day, your shoes will be sent off to our award winning cobbler to be stitched and to have a leather or rubber sole and heel attached, before being carefully boxed up and delivered back to you ready to be worn!

TIME

10am – 5pm any week day or Saturday by arrangement (please allow six weeks before your preferred date)

GROUP SIZE

Up to 4 students so there is plenty of individual guidance and advice

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)

MATERIALS

All of the materials to make the shoes are provided, but we do need some important information from you at checkout. We need to know:

COLOUR: The colour(s) of leather you would like? Choose from our core range including black, dark brown, mid brown, tan, burgundy, navy and white

Or go off piste with additional colours available at +£30 per colour

STYLE: Which style would you like to make – a Derby shoe, Oxford shoe or a Wholecut shoe

Brogued Oxford shoes

 

TOE SHAPE: Whether you’d like a round or oval toe…

 

DETAILS: Would you like blind or metal eyelets….

 

Finally, if you would like to keep your shoes looking at their best, we also offer wooden shoetrees made especially to fit them, which you can have personalised with your name or initials.

NEXT STEPS

Book now and then email us to arrange to come in to choose your shoe size, to confirm any extra colours and to arrange your class date. (Please allow a minimum of 6 weeks notice).

See our full Terms & Conditions here.