Bespoke footwear technician
Code 7536.2.1
Bespoke footwear technicians perform activities in small production environments, e.g. workshops, where footwear is typically custom-made. They design, prepare, cut and sew, assemble and finish custom made footwear.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- footwear quality
- perform pattern grading
- footwear components
- footwear equipments
- footwear materials
- footwear machinery
- manual cutting processes for leather
- footwear manufacturing technology
Skills and competences
- apply basic rules of maintenance to leather goods and footwear machinery
- apply stitching techniques
- apply footwear bottoms pre-assembling techniques
- apply footwear uppers pre-assembling techniques
- apply pre-stitching techniques
- cut footwear uppers
- create technical sketches for footwear
- create solutions to problems
- apply assembling techniques for cemented footwear construction
- create patterns for footwear
- apply development process to footwear design
- prepare footwear samples
Transversal competences
- innovate in footwear and leather goods industry
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
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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