Grandey's Place Craft Week - Belt Making Courses

As part of the Grandey's Place Heritage Crafts Week, Gizzi Leather will be running a craft leatherworking course.

This one day course is designed to introduce the beginner to leathercraft by learning how to make a handmade leather belt. The course is hands on from the start, you will learn about cutting, marking, stamping, hand stitching and finishing the leather so that you go home with a belt that you have made yourself totally by hand. My hope is for you to have a safe enjoyable day where you will learn something new.

The day will start promptly at 9am with the aim to finish by 5pm.

A maximum of four students per class. Places will be booked on a first-come-first-served basis.

You will be able to chose from Brown or Black belt leather for your belt strap, the width of strap (30 or 35mm) and a suitably sized solid brass or silver coloured alloy buckle. There will also be options for thread colours.

Most of the straps will be long enough to make a belt up to a maximum belt size of 45 inches, PLEASE NOTE this maximum size is based on the Gizzi Leather Sizing Guide (please see my courses page for more details) – please also refer to this guide if you are making the belt as a gift for somebody else.

After an introduction and safety briefing, the day will be broken into 4 stages;
• introduction to the tools and some practice,
• working on your belt blank,
• putting it all together
• sizing and finishing your belt.

Hopefully there will be time for questions and answers before you leave.

Other course dates are also available - please see the website or email for more details.

For more information visit https://www.gizzi-leather.com/one-day-belt-making-course/