Leather Working Techniques - Basic Course
€309.00 €259.66
per piece
Course details
- Working with a half-moon knife (head knife), skiving knife, awls, stitching pony, edge beveler, creaser, bone folder, vegetable-tanned leather, dyes, threads, etc.
- Cutting leather, skiving, thinning, folding with and without creasing
- Hand stitching: preparing threads, saddle stitch, stitching in a grooved channel including cutting the groove, hidden stitching, permanent threading, finishing threads, repairing broken threads, correcting stitching errors
- Edge work: beveling, burnishing and finishing edges (with and without edge dye)
- Decorative work: creasing / decorative crease lines
- Softening techniques and alternatives when a required tool is not available
- Finishing: removing stains, oiling, waxing and polishing
Instructor
While studying ethnology, the qualified cabinetmaker already worked as a set builder at the Munich TV studios. He was working as a freelance art carpenter in the Munich Gewerkehalle. For several years, he has worked as a consultant for DICTUM in courses dealing with Japanese wood joints.
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At the DICTUM workshop Kurswerkstatt München we have adapted our handicraft courses to suit the urban life style. In after-work classes or semester courses the participants learn how to handle machine tools and employ their new knowledge in project courses.
DICTUM Kurswerkstatt Munich
Haager Str. 9 - 4th floor
81671 Munich
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München
Haager Str. 9, IV. Stock
81671 München
