Footwear hand sewer
Code 7536.2.4
Footwear hand sewers join the cut pieces of leather and other materials using simple tools, such as needles, pliers and scissors to produce the uppers. Also, they perform hand stitches for decorative purposes or for assembling the uppers to soles in case of complete footwear.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- footwear quality
- footwear components
- footwear materials
- pre-stitching processes and techniques for footwear and leather goods
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear stitching techniques
Skills and competences
- apply pre-stitching techniques
Transversal competences
- work in textile manufacturing teams
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences