Silver Jewellery Online Class on Monday Evenings Starting March 2022
Four week live online class making silver jewellery for people with some jewellery making experience and their own tools at home.
£60.00

Monday evenings 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Live online Zoom sessions

Course outline

Creative Sociable and Fun

Online classes

What can you make with wire?

Monday evenings 7.00pm - 9.00pm

Live online Zoom sessions

Course outline

Four Monday evenings 7th, 14th, 28th March and 4th April (no class 21st March)

Live online Zoom sessions

2 hour live zoom sessions every week 7.00pm - 9.00pm

The number of participants will be limited so there will be plenty of individual attention.

This is for people who have their own tools at home.

Each week you be shown new projects using silver (and some copper) wire.

The sessions will be a mix of whole class demonstrations and discussions with pre-recorded videos and live demonstrations. There will also be small group work where you will have the opportunity to chat and be sociable with he others in the group.

You will need your own tools to work at home, please ask for a list if you have not already attended an online class.

You will also need to buy silver wire full list will be provided at least a week before the start of the course.

The course is designed for people with some experience in jewellery making and should enable you to make silver jewellery at home using basic jewellery making tools.

Course content

Please see below for minimum tool list.

The theme of this four week block will be wire - you will be twisting, combining, hammering and folding to explore the possibilities to make your own designs and set projects. We will only be using wire to make these projects, which means a break from the piercing saw (..you will need it a bit) and less stress on the budget!

There will be a range of projects from the very simple stacking ring and earring projects to more complicated ideas exploring chain making and filigree. There will be projects for all levels, from relative beginners to experienced jewellers, at every stage you will be given prompts to simplify or extend the ideas depending your ability.

We will also cover making basic findings from wire, from simple earwires to necklace catches.

This block of classes is standalone - no need to have attended previous online courses.

Each week there will be live demonstrations, discussion and videos with participants having a go during the session to make the projects. You will then work in small groups and this will be followed by a further group session to share what we have done and troubleshoot.

Materials

You will need to buy your own silver and copper wire

Tools

Essential tools - you will need a safe place to set up the following tools up at at home:

Pliers - round nosed, snipe nosed

Snips

Torch

Solder block

Safe heat station

Quench

Pickle + brass or plastic tweezers

Tweezers - reverse action