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Selection of belts that can be made in the leatherworking workshop

Leatherwork - Belt Making | Blended Monkey Studios | 5 July

£130.00Price
LEATHERWORK - BELT MAKING WORKSHOP
 
Sunday 5 July 9.15 am – 1.30 pm

£130.00 including refreshments, all materials, use of equipment on the day, tutoring & certificate of completion.
 
This four-hour group workshop with our guest leathework artist, Tony Fulton (Fatbob), is suitable for all skill levels. 
 
Create your own unique belt.
 
You will have the opportunity to create your own belt, each student will learn how to select the correct leather to make a sturdy long lasting belt, which hardware to use including buckles, rivets or threads for saddle stitching. How to cut a belt blank, fit the buckle either with rivets or via saddle stitching, edge finishing and waxing the belt.
 
- Introduction to the various tools and practice
- Cutting a belt blank
- Sizing the blank
- Fitting the buckle
- Saddle stitching and rivet setting
- Edge finishing and waxing
 
This LEATHERWORK - BELT MAKING 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.
 
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) - 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.
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  • 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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