Discover the amazing qualities of silver clay. During this half day workshop you will make a silver Calla Lily necklace with textured leaf, ready to wear. You will learn a variety of techniques includeing rolling, texturing and shaping on the mould. After firing you will burnish your work, add your beads to a headpin, and finally add your chain.

This half day workshop is designed to introduce you to the amazing qualities of silver clay. You will create stunning silver jewellery from a real leaf through the processes of pasting, sanding and firing. By adding antiquing colour and polishing, transform your leaves into a beautiful necklace or earrings that you can take home with you.

Using a selection of water based dyes, permanent markers and inks, spend most of the day dyeing and patterning aluminium and then fixing the colours to make them permanent. Aluminium is a very easy metal to work with and, in the last part of the workshop, you will cut some simple shapes to make pendants or earrings and look at other exciting possibilities. This is a very easy craft to continue at home.

Make a pair of silver earrings to your own design in a day. You will be introduced to the potential of the tools and equipment in the jewellery workshop and shown how to create a pair of beautiful stud or drop earrings.

Create a unique piece of silver jewellery through this very versatile medium. During this workshop, you will practise rolling, shaping, texturing and cutting techniques, creating a beautiful, lentil shaped pendant to your own design. Learn how to prepare your work for firing and how to finish your work to a professional standard.

SILVER JEWELLERY IN A DAY

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Spend a day learning simple techniques to produce your own metal jewellery. Practise tool use and model-making in copper first, then lose yourself in the magical process of turning silver into unique pieces of jewellery before your very eyes! Create one or two beautiful pieces of simple jewellery to take home.