Jewellery Summer School for Teenagers - 3 Day Course
An exciting 3-day course, introducing key jewellery and silversmithing techniques to your crafty teenagers! Each of the three days will focus on a different project, covering techniques such as soldering, forming, saw piercing, bending and finishing. Students will make a set of stacking rings, a pierced & textured pendant and linear shaped earrings. See below for the full course outline for each day.
As well as being a jewellery & silversmithing tutor for us at Meon Valley Studio, Gwen is an experienced art teacher, teaching secondary level children.
Tutor: Gwen Roff
Monday 14th- Wednesday 16th August 2023
10am-4pm each day
£270 per person
Materials and refreshments included
Bring your own packed lunch
Tea and coffee, provided each day, you will need to bring a packed lunch.
All basic silver, tools and consumables for each project are included in the course fee (optional extras such as chains, boxes or additional silver are available for purchasing).
Suitable for beginners aged between 12 and 17.
Projects and techniques covered on this course:
Day 1 - Set of silver stacking rings
- Discuss wire shapes
- Measuring metal length
- Using a piercing saw
- Bending & shaping
- Pallion soldering
- Filing, papering & polishing
- Texturing using hammers
Day 2 - Sheet silver pendant
- Piercing (sawing) sheet
- Texturing using hammers
- Filing & papering edges
- Drilling
- Surface finishes
- Forming
Day 3 - Linear shaped earrings
- Forming & bending with pliers
- Soldering using the solder probe
- Making ear hook wires
- Time to finish off the week’s projects
“Wow what a week, Olivia is a wonderful teacher and so very patient, she is both generous in her support and the imparting of her knowledge and silversmithing skills. It was so lovely to try new things and create pieces of jewellery I hadn’t attempted before. I came home every evening wanting to carry on and have really missed not being there now the week is over.”