Beginners Silver Jewellery

5 Week Evening Course (1 evening per week for 5 weeks)

Outline: The aim of this course is to give you the opportunity to make jewellery that you can take home and wear with pride. Whilst making each piece you will learn various jewellery making skills and after five weeks you will have a good foundation of skills. The course is also a great environment to develop your creativity and do something fun with like-minded people.

You will learn

• soldering, shaping, cutting, texturing metal, polishing
• how to make jump rings from wire
• how to make earring hooks and clasps

You will make

• Silver earrings
• Silver pendant with jump ring
• Silver ring / pendant
• Silver bracelet

Tools: You will lean to use a piercing saw, soldering torch, mandrills, doming punches, files, metal and rawhide hammers and rolling mill.

Suitable for: those with no previous experience and a great taster for those taking their first steps into a creative field.