PATTERN MAKING

Men's shoes

Led by industry experts, you'll learn the fundamentals of shoe design and pattern making for men's shoes. You'll gain insights on the different types of men's shoes, from dress shoes to casual ankle boots, and learn how to create patterns that are both stylish and functional.
DURATION

35 hours
300+ in-depth videos

ALL THE TOOLS YOU NEED

Arsutoria tools and lasts delivered to your home

BY YOUR SIDE

1-on-1 revisions with your teacher

COURSE LEAD

Paolo

LEVEL

  • Basic
  • Advanced

TUITION FEE

€ 4500,00

The Arsutoria technical knowledge from the comfort of your home

We will work on derby and laced-up oxford models, representing the quintessential elegant shoes, and on lasted moccasins and tubular moccasins. We will design laced-up ankle boots with side elastic. We will start from the lasts, constructing the base shell, and getting the pieces/patterns of the models.
  • Base shell making for our men's lasts
  • Step-by-step pattern making techniques for the most common shoe styles
  • Paper and microfiber mockups
  • Arsutoria lasts, tools and instruments delivered to your home to follow the course

Learn at your own pace

Approximate* overall time for course completion is 75 hours which is divided in:
  • duration of pre-recorded classes: 35 hours
  • duration of individual reviews: 5 hours total there will be about 5 reviews of 40/50 minutes each (specific time will be agreed on with instructors at the beginning of the course)
  • time of individual student’s commitment to develop the course work: 70 hours
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*Approximate: please notice that besides pre-recorded videos and the review time, the additional timing calculation is an estimate based on past students’ experience. Anyhow, students work at their own pace and each individual has its own time of work development so the present data is shared to provide an idea about time needed to absorb, exercise and deliver.

2025 schedule

Winter '25
Spring '25
Fall '25
  • January 7th - April 18th, 2025
  • April 23rd - August 6th, 2025
  • September 1st - December 12th

It all starts with  a pencil and paper

This class provides technical features on the main footwear styles and teaches how to draw the last, how to sketch the main footwear styles and how to get inspired from images and use it/reproduce it on footwear style. A journey through women, men and sneaker styles.
  • Pumps and straps
  • Derby and oxford
  • Moccassins
  • Boots
  • Sneakers
CONTENT OF THE COURSE

What you will learn with our course

Footwear families

The theory of pattern making

Draw on last

Men's common shoe styles

Some styles you will be working on

Derby

Derby style 01
Derby style 02
Derby style 03
Derby moccasin
Derby with buckle

Oxford

Oxford style 01
Oxford style 02
Whole cut Oxford
Rotated vamp Oxford

Board lasted moccasins and slip-on

Board lasted moccasin
Asymmetric moccasin
Plain vamp loafer
Slip-on loafer
Whole cut loafer

Tubular moccasins

Tubula penny loafer moccasin

Ankle boots and low boots

Chelsea style
Derby ankle boot
Zipped low boot
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All the tools you need


Upon enrollment, we will contact you to organize the shipping of the materials you need to follow the course

LED BY

Meet your teacher

Paolo

Technical director at arsutoria school

Paolo is an Arsutoria Alumnus from 1987. He had started as a pattern maker in his family company. The famous master Adriano Lunati asked him to join Arsutoria in 1993 as his successor. Since then he trained more than 3000 people including employees of brands such as Nike, Tod’s, LVMH, Timberland...

Course Lessons

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