Tooling With Clair
Do you know what you want your tooling to look like, but struggle to create the depth, detail and control you can see in your head?
Tooling with Clair is an online membership that helps you understand what your tools are doing, recognise what needs adjusting and build confidence through practical lessons, weekly live sessions with replays, and a supportive community of leatherworkers.
Learn directly from Clair through a growing resource library, weekly live sessions with replays, and a welcoming community where you can ask questions, receive support and connect with other leatherworkers.
Join by October 31 for the founding rate of $47 per month or $470 annually (pay for 10 months and receive two months free).
When the membership reopens, pricing will increase to $67 per month or $670 annually.
When You Know What You Want Your Tooling to Look Like but Can’t Quite Get It There
You may understand the basics and still struggle to create the depth, clean lines and finished result you pictured.
Patterns and individual tutorials can show you how to complete a project, but when something doesn’t look right, it can be difficult to know what needs adjusting. Is it the moisture in the leather, your tool placement, the pressure you’re using or the order of your steps?
Tooling with Clair helps you understand what you’re doing and why.
You’ll see techniques demonstrated, learn how to identify what needs improvement and have a place to ask questions when you get stuck
— so you can make more confident choices and continue developing your own style.
The Result
Build Greater Depth, Control and Confidence in Your Tooling
Tooling with Clair is designed to help you move beyond simply following a pattern and begin understanding how each technique contributes to the finished result.
As you learn and practise, you’ll be supported to:
Create greater depth, definition and detail in your work
Better understand your tools and what each one can achieve
Recognise what needs adjusting when something doesn’t look right
Approach new patterns and projects with more confidence
Develop techniques that support your own creative style
You don’t need to tool exactly like Clair. The goal is to give you the knowledge and support to make more confident decisions in your own work.
What’s Included
Learn, Practise and Receive Support Along the Way
A Growing Resource Library
Work through practical lessons, demonstrations, patterns and projects in your own time. The library will continue to grow as new techniques, tutorials and member-requested topics are added.
Weekly Live Sessions
Learn directly from Clair, see techniques demonstrated and bring along the questions you’ve encountered in your own work. If you can’t attend live, the replay will be available to watch later.
A Supportive Community
Connect with other leatherworkers, share your progress and ask questions between live sessions. The community is a place to learn alongside people who understand the work, patience and practice involved in the craft.
How It Works
Learn at Your Own Pace Without Learning Alone
1. Choose What You Want to Work On
Explore the resource library and begin with the lesson, technique or project that best suits your current skill level and goals.
2. Practise in Your Own Workshop
Watch the demonstrations, work through the steps and take the time you need to practise each technique.
3. Ask Questions and Keep Improving
Bring your questions to the weekly live sessions or post them inside the community. Use Clair’s guidance to understand what may need adjusting and apply it to your next piece.
The Founding Membership
Help Shape Tooling with Clair From the Beginning
Tooling with Clair is launching as a growing membership rather than a large, finished course.
You’ll begin with a carefully selected collection of foundational resources, lessons and projects. From there, the library will grow with the founding members.
The questions you ask, the techniques you want help with and the challenges you encounter will help Clair decide what lessons, demonstrations and resources to create next.
As a founding member, you’ll have the opportunity to learn directly from Clair while helping build a membership that reflects what leatherworkers genuinely want and need.
Choose Your Membership
Join at the Founding Rate Before October 31
Both membership options include complete access to the growing resource library, weekly live sessions and replays, and the Tooling with Clair member community.
Monthly Membership
$47 per month
Join at the founding monthly rate and pay as you go.
Growing resource library
Weekly live sessions
Access to all live replays
Member community
Ongoing support and new resources
Annual Membership
$470 per year
Save $94
Join at the founding monthly rate and pay as you go.
Growing resource library
Weekly live sessions
Access to all live replays
Member community
Ongoing support and new resources
Frequently Asked Questions
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The sessions will be recorded, and replays will be available inside the membership library so you can watch them when it suits you.
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We calculate fees based on scope, complexity, and projected resources, then present a transparent proposal.
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Engagements range from two weeks for focused audits to several months for comprehensive transformation.
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No. You don’t need to own every tool in Clair’s workshop. The introductory resources will help you understand the basic setup, and individual lessons will explain any specific tools or materials needed.
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Yes. You can bring your questions to the weekly live sessions or post them in the member community. This ongoing access to guidance is one of the main differences between the membership and purchasing an individual pattern or tutorial.
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No. Tooling with Clair is currently focused specifically on leather tooling. Drawing instruction may be introduced as a separate learning option in the future.
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Both options provide the same membership access. The annual option allows you to pay for 10 months upfront and receive two months free.
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The founding cart closes on October 31. After that, you’ll need to wait until Tooling with Clair opens again, when the price will be $67 per month or $670 per year.
Ready to Build Your Tooling Skills?
Join Tooling with Clair for practical instruction, weekly guidance and a supportive community that will help you understand the craft and continue improving your work.
Choose the payment option that suits you and join before the founding cart closes on October 31.