Practical short courses in contemporary leather, handbags and fashion accessories design, taught at her Central London studio by Katherine Pogson.
Bespoke glove-making at West Dean, Chichester
NEW AUTUMN DATES! Join Katherine in the delightful Sussex countryside for the second round of this new residential weekend course, from 15 – 17 November 2013
Soft leather accessories at West Dean, 11 – 13 October 2013
A weekend course in the heavenly Sussex countryside, on how to make fashion accessories from soft leather. Learn how to sew leather by machine and hand, and explore surface decoration techniques including embroidery, appliqué, foiling and stud-work for making purses, belts and other body adornments.
Katherine on sabbatical in 2013
Katherine Pogson will be taking a break from teaching her customary programme of evening and weekend courses in 2013. She is available for individual tuition by appointment, so please do email to discuss your ideas in more detail if you are interested.
One to one tuition by appointment
Katherine Pogson offers tailor-made personal tuition in construction techniques for handbags and leather fashion accessories, as well as consultation in many aspects of setting up and running a design business: sourcing materials, costing ranges, liaising with manufacturers, preparing patterns and specification sheets, making prototypes and samples. Clients include those who are developing or setting up...
Cockpit Arts Christmas Open Studios, 30 November – 2 December 2012
What could be more festive than buying beautiful gifts direct from the talented people who made them? At Cockpit Arts Open Studios you can meet 165 exceptional designers who make jewellery, fashion, home wares, ceramics, glass and more. Prices range from £5 – £5,000.
Summer School 2102: Make a structured bag
On this structured five day course, you will study three archetypal handbag designs, and learn how to decode the pattern-making process through practical exercises, allowing you to alter scale, shape and fullness with ease. You will move on to practice construction methods for key handbag elements by creating samples of different seam, zip, pocket and handle types,...
Crafting Excellence at Fortnum & Mason
Blue Navajo clutch by Katherine Pogson Katherine’s work will be on display in Crafting Excellence, an Exhibition of Craft at Fortnum & Mason in association with QEST. 6 February to 29 July 2012 www.fortnumandmason.com
Katherine Pogson wins QEST scholarship 2011
Katherine Pogson, tutor and founder of Designer Courses, was delighted to become a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust scholar earlier this year, and collected her award at a luncheon hled by the Royal Warrant Holder’s Association at the Hilton Hotel in June. Katherine is using her scholarship to attend a series of courses in computer aided...
New Designer Courses website
The new-look Designer Courses website goes live today, 25 July 2011. We hope you find it fresh, easy to use and full of information. We’d love to hear what you think about it it, so if you have any suggestions or comments please do drop us a line.
