Keum Boo
The tutor Christine Dhein is a jewellery designer author and educator. She is the assistant Director and an Instructor at the Revere Academy of jewellery arts in San Francisco. She is also the founder of 'Green Jewelry News' an electronic newsletter for eco-friendly workshop practice.

Learn this dramatic, yet simple, Korean surface technique of bonding thin pure gold to silver. In just one day your expert instructor will guide you through every step in the process of preparing the silver through depletion guilding and then applying pure gold through heat and pressure. Keum-boo offers beautiful textural and graphic possibilities, opening a whole palette of effects to explore, as well as enhancing the perceived value of silver jewelry. Roller printing, patinas and finishing techniques as well as application to hollow and 3-D forms will be covered. Students fabricate dangle earrings and a hollow pendant in sterling, both embellished with pure gold surface patterns. Instruction also covers applying gold to Argentium® sterling, fine silver and PMC. Basic jewelry fabrication experience required.

The materials fee for this course of £65.00 includes half a sheet of gold foil, an agate burnisher and silver for the project. This fee is payable to the lecturer during the course.