Intermediate Silversmithing Jewellery Making Course

Develop your skills with this five-day intermediate jewellery making class.


Noctua
Noctua
5.0 (9)
Instagram followers13k

5 x 6 hours Class size 1 to 4     label £700

This five-day silversmithing course is bursting with spectacular jewellery making experiences! Try sand casting, chain making, flush setting and bezel setting and learn to make your own jewellery using advanced skills as you develop your silversmithing abilities in a creative and inspiring studio environment.

If you've already taken a few classes with this teacher or have taken the Noctua three-day course, this five-day course is a brilliant option to continue to develop your jewellery making skills. This is an intermediate course so previous learning with this teacher is essential.

Your expert tutors have carefully built each day of this course to be creative and informative. Enjoy five full days of jewellery making. You'll learn a range of advanced skills and produce some beautiful handmade pieces to keep.

Day 1 - Sand casting
On your first day, your teacher will get your heart rate going by bringing out the big blowtorch to do some sand casting. Sand casting is the process of using a fine sand to create a mould from a small object, for example, a seed, shell, a much-loved trinket or anything small and robust.

With support from your tutor, you'll then heat the silver until it’s molten (the really flipping exciting bit!) and pour your metal into the mould. A little cleaning up later and you’ll have a ready to wear piece created by yourself!

You'll also be shown how to safely set up a soldering area and how to do daily checks on your equipment. While you’re waiting for your turn to do the sand casting you'll be hammering away and creating fold formed pieces which can be turned into objects or jewellery.

Day 2 - Chain making
On your second day, you’ll be focusing on-chain and component making. The style options for chain making are endless! Your tutors will help you to design your very own chain. Choose to add semi-precious beads and forge your very own clasp! This exercise will truly perfect your clean up and soldering skills ready for the projects you work on during the rest of the week.

Day 3 - Flush setting
During your third day, you'll spend a few hours perfecting flush and tube settings, plus you'll be shown how to make your own tools to use for this setting which you’ll get to take home. Once you’ve mastered the setting, you’ll make a simple piece of jewellery with your choice of flush or stone setting feature.

Day 4 - Bezel setting
Spend the first part of your morning sifting through your teachers' vast stone collection, which is filled to the brim with vibrant natural colours and unique shapes. You can opt for a cut or uncut stone. Pick your favourite and get to work on making it into a beautiful piece of jewellery. You'll build on your existing stone setting skills by using thicker bezel wire, adding texture to your backplate and you can even add a border and decoration too.

Day 5
Your final day! You'll have spent the first few days of this jewellery course building up your skills to make you into a kick-ass intermediate silversmith. You’ll be confident and beaming with your new skills and now it’s time to implement them into your final project, locket making!

You’ll spend some time designing your locket, deciding how many layers to add, whether or not you want stones, and maybe even adding a little texture or a surprise element inside. Your teacher will show you how to whip up an incredible, fully functioning locket from start to finish in a single day.

By the end of this inspiring jewellery making course, you'll have developed a wealth of new knowledge and a host of new capabilities in silversmithing. You'll take away your finished pieces to wear, along with a newfound skill set to use for future jewellery making.


Knowledge required
Intermediate. This course is designed for students who have already taken a few classes with this teacher or have taken the Noctua three-day course.
 
What you'll get
  • The jewellery you make during your course.
  • Extra metal can be purchased when you're at your workshops if you would like to make your projects larger than advised.
What to bring
Some lunch for each day of the course. There's an Italian cafe next door to the studio which does sandwiches and coffee - this is an option if you'd prefer to buy something.
 
Session repeats

This class series runs over 5 consecutive days.

Location

Noctua - 34 Regent Street, Liverpool, England, L3 7BN

Intermediate Silversmithing Jewellery Making Course location
Your teacher
Noctua
Noctua

5.0 (9)
Instagram followers13k

We are Britt and Andrew. Britt’s journey with jewellery making started in 2012 as a hobby that has slowly blossomed into what it is today - Noctua Jewellery & Workshops. Andrew joined Britt in September 2017 helping out with workshops and learning about the business.

Britt's love for jewellery started when she was a child and a relative bought her a beading kit. She delved in and out of jewellery making until she was 15 and finally discovered the holy grail of jewellery making: silversmithing. Much to her father’s delight, she purchased a blowtorch online and then began practising at home, continuously saving up for new tools and books. After many attempts, both failed and successful, she decided to find an apprenticeship to develop her skills, eventually finding one, 358 miles from home in beautiful Cornwall. Britt returned to Liverpool in February 2017 with a drive to give other people the joy of making their own silver jewellery.

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