Cutting & Tailoring Courses

Whether it's learning a new language, a musical instrument or an artistic skill, ten thousand hours is the recognised time frame to master any subject.

Tailoring is no different. Ten thousand hours works out to seven years, working a five day week, forty hours a week. This is also the same amount of time our Master Tailor, Rory Duffy spent studying the tailoring trade under some of the finest artisans in both the UK and Ireland.

Since Rory did all this, you don’t have to!

Our tailoring courses set out all this information which is easy to understand and follow.

On a Handcraft Tailor Academy cutting and tailoring course you can cut through all the background noise and get straight to the point. Many of Rory’s masters loved to tell him how difficult tailoring can be, how long it was going to take him to master cutting and tailoring. What Rory found was, when broken down into its core elements on his tailoring courses, the modules that cover a cutting and tailoring course could be understood and mastered by anyone who follows his teachings in a fraction of the time.

Simply making out something is difficult. A thought may be planted into the novice’s head, a thought of self-doubt that they may not succeed. Rory’s approach on his tailoring courses is more proactive, having experienced his own master’s methods, he decided to take the complete opposite approach. Students need reassurance and encouragement throughout their tailoring course, to be constantly told they can succeed. Rory informs his students on his tailoring courses of his own experience of learning to be a master tailor. He doesn’t consider himself to have been particularly gifted, just determined to succeed. Rory, like all apprentices, made mistakes. His road to learning cutting and tailoring was as bumpy as any novice who wanted to learn tailoring at the highest level. The benefit of Rory’s cutting and tailoring course is that they are tailored to students who want to learn and master the craft in the shortest possible time period.

Making mistakes is an important part of learning.

When we start out we want everything to be perfect but perfection is the mountain we all must climb and there are many false summits before we reach the top. The first garment that we cut and make is filled with so much hope and joy. The joy of making something by ourselves for ourselves often blinds us to the reality of its perfection.