Intro Leatherwork - Ranger Belt Workshop
Sat, Mar 07
|Tangent Gallery & Hastings Street Ballro
Spend an afternoon learning traditional leatherworking by building a fully stitched, functional ranger-style belt from scratch.
Time & Location
Mar 07, 2026, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Tangent Gallery & Hastings Street Ballro, 715 E Milwaukee Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
About the Event
This is not a fashion accessory workshop. You’ll be working with full hides of vegetable-tanned leather, cutting your own straps, shaping tapered ends, hand-stitching structural sections, setting copper rivets, and finishing the belt properly with burnishing and oil.
By the end of the day, you will walk away with:
A finished, functional ranger belt
A solid understanding of how leather behaves and how to select usable sections of a hide
Experience cutting straps and taper pieces
Practice marking, punching, and saddle stitching