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Traditional Leather Craft Workshop

STORE STORE x Barbican

Traditional Leather Workshop

Learn how to craft leather goods using traditional techniques with this three-hour workshop from STORE STORE, part of London Craft Week 2020. 

Participants in this three-hour workshop will be introduced to crafting leather goods and given the opportunity to learn core skills in the practice. Taught by Kingsley Walters, a traditional leather-craftsmen and artist based in East London, each participant will be taught to make a Card Holder or a Leather Belt using only traditional techniques, and a range of practical skills including sewing by hand, cutting patterns and maintenance of leather. 

STORE STORE is an innovative London based community project which have teamed up with the Barbican to organise a series of individual artistic workshops. Designed to explore new materials and processes, every day a different artist, architect or designer is invited to teach a new craft.  

This event has a limited capacity of 15 participants.

The workshop will last approximately 3 hours.

Barbican Shop