2026 Arnhem Workshops
Jürgen Volbach
Workshop Description: In this workshop, you will create a 2-part work with a 3D modeled skull in the first layer and a frame in the Acanthus style in the second layer.
Danielle Roossien
Workshop Description: Dive into the world of leather with this informative and practical workshop. This workshop will guide you through the art of analyzing and identifying various leather types and tanning methods.
Eamonn Townsend
Workshop Description: Make a multi-use pouch that can be attached to your belt or have a cross-body strap attached.
Isaac Romero
Workshop Description: In this workshop, participants will create an 8-strand herringbone braided leather bracelet while learning key braiding techniques.
Gesa Thiessen
Workshop Description: In this workshop, you will learn how to make a small purse with a geometric pattern of your choice.
Thomas Lampartner
Workshop Description: This workshop begins with an introduction to Olivenleder’s revolutionary tanning agent, made from organic olive leaves.
Kathy Flanagan
Workshop Description: This class is more about painting in black and white than it is about the leopard itself.
Danielle Roossien
Workshop Description: Ready to turn your ideas into reality? Join Danielle for an exciting, hands-on journey into the world of bag design and pattern-making.
Ralf Meisel
Workshop Description: In this hands-on beginner workshop, you’ll learn how to bring tooled leather designs to life with color.
Steffen Wurtz
Workshop Description: Come and build a cell phone case with Steffen that will include some fancy floral carving.
Steffen Wurtz
Workshop Description: Join Steffen for a fun workshop building a pair of dove wing spur straps.
Dave Skinner
Workshop Description: Vector drawings & patterns…the next step in the evolution of leathercraft! Vector-based applications (i.e.. Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Inkscape, Affinity, etc…) can be very confusing and intimidating to some. This is where Dave Skinner can help take the mystery away.
Lea Wagner
Workshop Description: Learn a variety of different hand-stitching techniques and discover new tips and tricks about the ones you have learned in the past.
Serge Volken
Workshop Description: A handful of leather, a few clever knots—and suddenly you’re making jewelry.
Eamonn Townsend
Workshop Description: Make a leather bell that could be used for a Christmas decoration.
Lien Deraedt
Workshop Description: Make your FIRST leather project! Never made anything in leather because you do not know where to start?
Lien Deraedt
Workshop Description: Make your FIRST leather project! Never made anything in leather because you do not know where to start?
Gerda van der Stroom and Ralf Meisel
Workshop Description: If you have never worked with leather, then this is your chance to dive in and make something fun! A hands-on project will be provided for each student by Tandy Leather Spain.
Karin Bentvelzen
Workshop Description: In this workshop, you will learn how to cut a boot pattern, shape it on a mini cobbler’s last, skive the parts, add some design/stamping, and then assemble them into a sweet little boot.
Jürgen Volbach
Workshop Description: In this workshop, you will learn how to create deep relief and a 3D effect with embossing, Jürgen’s technique of cutting out backgrounds with ease, and obtaining a fine filigree for the win!
Armin Dobstetter
Workshop Description: Armin will demonstrate how to make piping using different materials and different borders. there are so many ways to make piping and so many applications for it!
Gabor Pinter
Workshop Description: One of Gabor’s most popular patterns of the last decade is the Pocket Pony keychain figure.
Barry King
Workshop Description: Barry King has produced thousands of basket stamps over the years and he’s always minting new ones. This is your chance to try brand-new stamps, as well as those that are found in traditional motifs.
Kathy Flanagan
Workshop Description: The turkey hen is close up and personal, made from a photo Kathy took in her front yard. This is a small picture on leather, but is full of details and textures.
Lea Wagner
Workshop Description: The key to good work is skill, practice, good-quality material and, of course, good and well-maintained tools!
Gabor Pinter
Workshop Description: Understand and learn how to create Sheridan style scrolls – from basic layout planning to shaping floral elements. No prior drawing experience needed.
Gabor Pinter
Workshop Description: Understand and learn how to create Sheridan style floral scrolls – from advanced layout planning (in different shapes of backgrounds) to drawing around existing figures/shapes.
Jürgen Volbach
Workshop Description: Wield your swivel knife with confidence! Learning to cut smoothly and seamlessly is the goal of this workshop.
Lea Wagner
Workshop Description: Welcome to the world of bags! This class covers a variety of important construction techniques you need to build all sorts of bags.
Lea Wagner
Workshop Description: Easy to learn, hard to master. Simple Celtic knots are for sure a great beginner project, but now it´s time to dive deep into the complexity of Viking animal motifs, combined with fine details and filigree.
Lorna Townsend
Workshop Description: Carve and decorate a coaster with a chrysanthemum motif, using layers of watercolor paint to achieve a realist effect. Some experience of carving needed.
| WORKSHOP | INSTRUCTOR | DAY(S) | DATE(S) | TIME | FEE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Skull with Acanthus Style Frame | Volbach | WED-THU | 21.10 - 22.10 | 09.00 - 18.00 | $295 |
| Analyze and Identify Leather | Roossien | WED | 21.10. | 09.00 - 12.00 | $90 |
| Belt Pouch | Townsend | SAT | 24.10. | 09.00 - 17.00 | $125 |
| Braided Leather Bracelet – Wednesday | Romero | WED | 21.10. | 09.00 - 18.00 | $250 |
| Braided Leather Bracelet – Thursday | Romero | THU | 22.10. | 09.00 - 18.00 | $250 |
| Build a Cute Purse | Thiessen | SAT | 24.10. | 09.00 - 17.00 | $185 |
| Carve a Coaster on Olivenleder Leather | Rubinovitz | SAT | 24.10. | 14.00 - 16.00 | $50 |
| Clouded Leopard in Black and White | Flanagan | WED-THU | 21.10 - 22.10 | 09.00 - 18.00 | $295 |
| Design Your Own Bag! (+ Pattern) | Roossien | WED | 21.10. | 14.00 - 18.00 | $135 |
| Dyeing Tooled Leather: Beginner's Workshop | Meisel | FRI | 23.10. | 09.00 - 15.00 | $150 |
| Floral-tooled Cell Phone Case | Wuertz | THU | 22.10. | 09.00 - 18.00 | $195 |
| Floral-tooled Spur Straps | Wuertz | FRI | 23.10. | 09.00 - 18.00 | $195 |
| From Pencil to PC: Introduction to Vector Drawing | Skinner | THU | 22.10. | 14.00 - 18.00 | $125 |
| Hand Sewing Level-Up! | Wagner | FRI | 23.10. | 14.00 - 18.00 | $125 |
| Knotty Leather Jewelry | Volken | WED | 21.10. | 09.00 - 18.00 | $250 |
| Leather Bell | Townsend | FRI | 23.10. | 14.00 - 18.00 | $80 |
| Leather Wallet for “Dummies” (morning) | Deraedt | WED | 21.10. | 09.00 - 13.00 | $50 |
| Leather Wallet for “Dummies” (afternoon) | Deraedt | WED | 21.10. | 14.00 - 18.00 | $50 |
| Leathercraft for Beginners | van der Stroom | SAT | 24.10. | 09.00 - 13.00 | Free |
| Make Your Own Miniature Boots | Bentvelzen | WED | 21.10. | 14.00 - 18.00 | $100 |
| Modified Al Stohlman Flower Pattern | Volbach | FRI | 23.10. | 09.00 - 17.00 | $175 |
| Piping and More! | Dobstetter | SAT | 24.10. | 09.00 - 17.00 | $195 |
| Pocket Pony Mastery | Pinter | THU | 22.10. | 09.00 - 17.00 | $225 |
| Precision Stamping with Barry King | King | THU | 22.10. | 09.00 - 13.00 | $125 |
| Sassy Turkey | Flanagan | FRI | 23.10. | 09.00 - 18.00 | $145 |
| Sharpening Your Stitching Awl | Wagner | FRI | 23.10. | 09.00 - 13.00 | $125 |
| Sheridan Floral Drawing – 1.0 Basics | Pinter | FRI | 23.10. | 09.00 - 18.00 | $175 |
| Sheridan Floral Drawing – 2.0 Advanced | Pinter | SAT | 24.10. | 09.00 - 17.00 | $175 |
| Swivel Knife Finesse | Volbach | SAT | 24.10. | 09.00 - 17.00 | $175 |
| The World of Bags | Wagner | THU | 22.10. | 09.00 - 18.00 | $225 |
| Viking Tooling – It’s All About the Details | Wagner | SAT | 24.10. | 09.00 - 17.00 | $185 |
| Watercolor Chrysanthemum – Wednesday | Townsend | WED | 21.10. | 09.00 - 13.00 | $110 |
| Watercolor Chrysanthemum – Friday | Townsend | FRI | 23.10. | 09.00 - 13.00 | $110 |
