Hand-Crafted Fine Jewellery

Silver Jewellery Workshop

What you get

You’ll end up making a Sterling Silver piece of jewellery. It could be one or more rings, pendants or brooches.

Itinerary

The workshops begins at 10.00am, with tea or coffee and goodies and a brief chat and look through some work made by David. This is followed by a talk on texturing and finishing then a demonstration of how to manipulate and texture sterling silver. You are then shown how to use various tools when necessary solder your item together and finish it in a variety of ways. Students begin by designing their pieces and are then given some sterling silver to work with.

The methods of working the silver includes forging using hammers and other tools such as the rolling-mill. You’ll be annealing the metal with a blow-torch then cold-working the silver. The hot metal is quenched in Pickle (a diluted sulphuric acid) and then water after each annealing and then manipulated further towards the desired shape.

The workshops conclude at 4.00pm, but if needs be extend through to when each student finishes their jewellery – and you get to go home wearing it on in the box and perhaps give it as a present! There are only ever a maximum of three students on these workshops.