Shoe making
Next intake
Work in a real shoe sample room together with Arsutoria school lab technicians and learn how to actually manage all the different steps of shoe manufacturing: cutting, preparation, stitching, lasting and soling; a complete journey through mocassin, ballerina, derby, sandal, laced up sneaker with sidewall stitching, knitted sneaker with foamed outsole and running style.
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What you’ll learn
Learn the art of shoe making starting from understanding materials, components and constructions to finally develop and complete your own sample.
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. Five 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 5 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.
Students can decide to take just one of the standalone modules:
2026 Intakes
Traditional shoes
2 weeks • € 3.000,00
November 16 – November 27, 2026
Sneakers
2 weeks • € 3.000,00
November 30 – December 11, 2026
2027 Intakes
Moccasin
1 week • € 2.000,00
March 22 – March 26, 2027
July 5 – July 9, 2027
November 15 – November 19, 2027
Traditional shoes
2 weeks • € 3.500,00
March 30 – April 9, 2027
July 12 – July 23, 2027
November 22 – December 3, 2027
Sneakers
2 weeks • € 3.500,00
April 12 – April 23, 2027
July 26 – August 6, 2027
December 6 – December 17, 2027
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 Arsutoria School 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