Welcome to Leather School
We offer practical courses that are steeped in age-old traditions within our modern facilities. Leather School operates from the first floor of the Tanner Bates traditional English leather making studio in beautiful South Devon.
Our connection to the studio means that we are amongst the best resourced centres for learning leather working skills in the country. Our tutors are drawn from professionals working for Tanner Bates, along with highly skilled practitioners in different specialisms
Time to get crafting
We’ve been germinating new ideas recently and in July we’re offering our first Advanced Leather Courses: making a neat Zipped Folio/Wallet and Tooling/ Designing onto leather. Plus we’re running a Tote Bag Making Day with our friends at Craft Revolution Dartington on Sat July 20th (and Sat 19th Oct). With longer days and extra hours for learning something new, it’s an ideal time of the year to get into leather work. Dates are available for our Essential Skills Weekend courses (for those serious about exploring leather work) along with skills based experiential In-a-Day courses for Satchels, Belts, Wallets and Knife/ Axe-head Sheaths.
If you’re looking for a present for someone you can choose from specific course gift cards or cash gift cards.
The Leather School Mission
Whether you come for a short experiential course, or to learn essential leather-making skills, our aim is to inspire you to get hands-on with leather and to enable you to learn skills that you will continue to develop in creating leatherwork, either for the pleasure of learning a craft or in your professional life.
Courses and Booking
Leather School courses start with relatively straight forward short classes and build up to the essential skills to get you established. Beyond this we are committed to supporting our students and experienced leather workers with advanced skills and supportive Makers’ Days.
To book onto Leather School courses use the calendar on the menu bar. Choose the course and date you want, then select ‘Tickets’ to book the course.
It is the best course I have ever been on…
Fantastic course, learnt loads it is the best course I have ever been on, John and Will were excellent instructors very patient and informative, came home with a lovely belt and bag made completely from scratch by myself. I feel confident to carry on with this skill at home. I would definitely recommend this course to others.
Carol
….we’ve done a range of different skills courses because we’re both a bit crafty, and we’re in agreement that this was the best thing that we’ve ever done.
Hi John, thanks for a superb weekend. I came into work this morning showing off my new belt and already have an order for a dog collar.
…If I could I would give up work and go and spend my time with John in that lovely workshop I could not think of any thing better. Thank you John and Will for a lovely informatitve weekend.
The course was fantastic! I could never have imagined learning so much over one weekend! I now feel confident that I can start implementing my creative thoughts into actual products…
