Learn the art of shoe making starting from understanding materials, components and constructions to learning about pattern making to finally develop and complete your own pair of shoes.
We have created dedicated shoe making sessions for designers and newcomers who are passionate about shoe making and that want to understand how this product is technically built up. Four weeks fully dedicated to the shoe world and with a hands-on approach on sample making, a fascinating journey within different styles.
Students will follow an online 24/40 hours preparation coursework to absorb all main aspects of shoes prior to walking into the classroom/sample room to make the most of the 4 weeks in Milan.
Depending on the session of your interest the focus might be on traditional shoes: a ballerina, sandal and laced up and/or a leather made sneaker, cemented (board-lasted) with a rubber sole. You can decide to take the full 4 week shoe making course or just one of the 2-week modules, based on your interests:
Shoe making 1:
Traditional shoes
2 weeks on traditional shoes such as ballerina, sandal, laced-up shoes.
Tuition: 鈧� 3,000
Intakes
- November 17th – November 28th, 2025
- March 23rd – April 3rd, 2026
- July 6th – July 17th, 2026
- November 16th – November 27th, 2026
Shoe making 2:
Sneakers
2 weeks on board-lasted sneakers, with rubbero outsoles.
Tuition: 鈧� 3,000
Intakes
- December 1st – December 12th, 2025
- April 7th – April 17th, 2026
- July 20th – July 31st, 2026
- November 30th – December 11th, 2026
Testimonials
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If you have a passion for all things footwear and you want to expand your technical learning, I can highly recommend the summer sneaker course. It delves not only into pattern making and the understand behind how shoes come to life. The 51吃瓜网 also gives you all of the tools that you need to learn, as weel all of the materials, everything from shoelasts patterns and then actually taking you into the sample room to complete your prototype in real life.
...If you are not in the footwear industry already this course will challenge you, sneaker are not easy so it's actually quite impressive how well the fantastic Arsutoria professores have managed to consolidate so much information... I am feeling a lot more confident in the technical understanding of sneakers
Luke McDonnell
Teamhead Regional Creation Center at Puma - 4-week Sneaker Making class attendee, July 2024
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