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Leatherwork - Carving & Tooling | Blended Monkey Studios | 25 May 2025

    • Leatherwork - Carving & Tooling | Blended Monkey Studios | 25 May 2025

    £100.00Price
    LEATHERWORK - CARVING & TOOLING WORKSHOP
     
    Sunday 25 May 9.45 am – 4.00 pm

    £100.00 including refreshments, lunch, all materials, use of equipment on the day, tutoring & certificate of completion.
     
    This full-day group workshop with our guest textile artist, Tony Fulton (Fatbob), is suitable for all skill levels. 
     
    Create an approx. 19 cm valet tray and an approx. 9 cm coaster using various skills.
     
    You will learn many of the basic skills employed in carving and tooling a design onto leather to create an artistic piece, including how to use leather carving tools, casing the leather, creating & transferring a pattern, and spending the afternoon learning how to create an artistic piece of your own design.
    Each student will also learn the skills needed so that they may continue to practice at home.
     
    - Select the correct type of leather to use for tooling
    - Design a pattern for your project
    - Case the leather in preparation for tooling
    - Learn how to place the pattern and trace it onto the leather
    - Learn how to use a swivel knife & the tools for tooling the leather
    - Learn about resist and using antique gel
    - Learn how to protect your piece once finished
     
    This LEATHERWORK - CARVING & TOOLING WORKSHOP will be held in the peaceful setting of our Blended Monkey studios on the Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border. 
     
    Numbers are limited to ensure you get plenty of 1-2-1 tuition. 
     
    This leatherwork experience is suitable for 16+. 
     
    About a week before your workshop date, we'll e-mail you again with more details about parking etc.

    Refreshments will be provided throughout the day and also a lovely lunch - tailored to meet all dietary requirements.
     
    All students will be provided with a certificate of completion.
     
    This would make a fabulous CRAFTY GIFT for someone - so drop us a line and we can post out to you/the recipient a complimentary personalised gift certificate for this experience🎁
     
    The full-day workshop includes:
     
    - Materials & use of equipment on the day
    - Refreshments (tea/coffee/soft drinks/cake) & lunch - catering to all dietary requirements
    - As we limit the number of people, you get to have some 1-2-1 tuition and the maximum benefit from a day with no distractions
    - Certificate of completion
     
    We also offer accommodation in the form of our Crafter's Retreat cabin subject to availability or we can advise of other local B&Bs.

    • Booking, Cancellation & Refund Terms & Conditions

      • The purchaser of the workshop may cancel the workshop up to 2 weeks before the workshop date with a full refund.

      • If we need to cancel a workshop at short notice for reasons beyond our control, such as illness or mechanical breakdowns, the first option is to rearrange a mutually convenient date or receive a refund. In the event of cancellation for any reason, we are unable to reimburse travel, accommodation or any other expenses that you may incur in relation to the cancelled course.

    • Meet our Guest Tutor

      "Fatbob Crafts was was created with the aim of keeping traditional skills at the core of the business, so every item is 100% crafted by hand using age old techiques and hand tools.

      In my workshop in Godmanchester, I create custom leathergoods, everything from motorcycle saddles and panniers to purses, wallets and belts.

      I specialise in handcarved and tooled design work which leaves every piece a unique and useable piece of artwork. Besides the custom work, I also do repairs and restoration work to bring much-loved pieces back to life.

      Most of my products are produced from premium vegetable tanned leather, vegetable tanned leather is a hide that has been processed using bark, roots and leaves from trees such as oak which are high in tannins to produce a tanned piece of leather.
      Each piece starts life as a blank piece of leather which is hand cut to the appropriate shape and size, then a design may be handtooled onto it and dyed using premium leather dyes and acrylic leather paint. After another 24hrs the piece is then hand saddle stitched using waxed cord and then treated to a beeswax balm & a finish coat to protect the piece."

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