PATTERN MAKING

Sneakers

Although in Arsutoria we have fun personalising the sneakers of leading brands or disassembling and reassembling them, the aim of this course is different: we want to teach you how to technically develop the patterns and the prototype of a sneaker, starting from an original idea.
DURATION

35 hours

VIDEOS

300+ in-depth videos

COURSE LEAD

Paolo

LEVEL

  • Basic
  • Advanced

ALL THE TOOLS YOU NEED

Arsutoria tools and lasts delivered to your home

BY YOUR SIDE

1-on-1 revisions with your teacher

TUITION FEE

€ 4500,00

The Arsutoria technical knowledge from the comfort of your home

For over ten years, the technical director of Arsutoria, Paolo Marenghi, has been organising pattern making training courses for leading athletic shoe brands. Over these weeks, Paolo himself will guide you in the world of fashion sneakers: those products where the constructions and technical materials meet elegance and the quality of Made in Italy.

We will work on top-lasted and strobel constructions, take a look at knitted uppers, and analyse the constructions underlying iconic models like the Stan Smith derby-style, Oxford running, Van’s slip-on style, and Jordan mid-cut style.
  • Base shell making for our sneaker lasts
  • Step-by-step pattern making techniques for both men's and women's sneakers
  • Paper and microfiber mockups

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: 35 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
CONTENT OF THE COURSE

What you will learn with our course

Footwear families

The theory of pattern making

Draw on last

Men's and women's sneaker pattern making

Some styles you will be working on

Men's sneaker 01

Board lasted

Men's sneaker 02

Edge strobel

WOMen's sneaker 06

Edge strobel

WOMEN's sneaker 03

Edge strobel

HIGH CUT SNEAKER

Men's casual chelsea

Men's basket style 08

Edge strobel

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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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