Job Description

• Cutting and preparing canvas, leather and sailcloth to design specifications, patterns and drawings
• Sewing, gluing and riveting sections of canvas together to make articles such as awnings, tents, tarpaulins and horse rugs
• Attaching grommets, fastenings and other fittings to canvas goods
• Joining parts of leather articles using rivets, hand sewing, sewing machines, tools and adhesive
• Restoring and repairing leather articles
• Fabricating sails
• Designing patterns and prototypes of boots and shoes
• Making and grading patterns using manual and computerised methods
• Clicking synthetics, corrected grains, leather linings and leather outers by hand and machine
• Altering and repairing footwear