Can you confirm the boots you are trying to craft? I ask this because I had a similar problem and did not realise that the boots I was trying to craft were the Improved boots which required Perfected Light padding.
Had a glance at the wiki to refresh my memory. There’s three versions of light boots. Normal, perfected and epic. You tried normal and perfected, so maybe climbing boots you’re crafting require the epic version of light boots.
Yeah, you know. There’s the basic armorer’s bench, then the improved version. (And of course the grandmaster versions after that.) I just don’t remember right off if epic armor requires the improved or grandmaster versions or if they can be crafted on the basic bench as well.