Jewellery Workshop Silver Bracelet Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This introductory jewellery making short course guides students through simple and practical techniques for making a bracelet in silver. The emphasis is on developing confidence and exploring foundational techniques for making silver jewellery by hand.
During the course, students learn how to use a piercing saw to cut silver sheets, use files to refine shapes and use a soldering torch to join silver pieces together. Students use embossing and doming to add surface detail and shaping to their pieces and discover how to achieve a good finish.
By the end of the 5 weeks students will know how to make their own bracelet customised with design details and understand how to use the workshop equipment safely.
After completing this short course, students may progress on to other jewellery making short courses to continue advancing their skills and develop a creative portfolio.
Who this course is for
This 5-week evening course is aimed at anyone interested in making their own silver jewellery. No previous experience is required, and support will be given in the use of workshop equipment.
Key information
Topics covered
- Piercing, soldering, filing
- Simple fittings and finishes
- Workshop health and safety
- Making a chain bracelet
- Handouts of suppliers and sources for further research
Learning outcomes
- Be able to use hand tools and solder torches safely
- Understand the different stages of making silver jewellery
- Make a bracelet with hanging charm of their own design
- Know how to use workshop equipment safely
- Be able to source tool and bullion suppliers and venues to do further jewellery research
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance.
Materials
- Apron
- Hair tie (if you have long hair)
- Please wear closed shoes
Tutor
Sarah King
Sarah King is an established jeweller specialising in mixing precious and non-precious materials in jewellery and using them to make sculptural and tactile pieces. She has sold her work through department stores such at Liberty and Barneys, New York and the art jewellery gallery Jewellers' Werk Galerie in Washington DC. Since 2000 she has been experimenting with cast bioresin and these works are in public and private collections (including Crafts Council and the British Council), and has worked on many books on contemporary jewellery. She has won the Association of Contemporary Jewellery Prize and several Goldsmiths' Craftmanship and Design Awards.
She has taught specialist classes in plastics, wood and silver jewellery for over 15 years and in 2019 published her first book 'Creating Jewellery in Wood'. For 16 years she was based in the innovative makers hub Cockpit Arts in London and now lives and works in Lewes, East Sussex.
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