Course List, InTheStudio Professional Jewellery Making Courses of between 1 and 5 days duration

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Classes are limited in numbers depending on the jewellery course. Tea and Coffee always available. Residential includes continental breakfast.

The converted 'Old Barn' and other ancient outbuildings contain the splendid jewellery workshops. The studio has two fully equipped workshops, each accommodating around 6 students and a lecturer allowing two separate courses to be held at the same time. There is an additional lecture room, where students may gather around a master bench for demonstrations. 'In the Studio' now boasts its own casting workshop allowing casting to take place on the premises during the casting course.

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Jewellery Making Introduction:
This course covers the use of tools, workshop discipline and the techniques of piercing, soldering and finishing. Students may expect to make a pendant or key fob and a simple stone set finger ring to a high standard.
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Duration: 2 days.

Jewellery Making Intermediate:
The course is structured for students to become confident and proficient with soldering. The production of a bangle and a pair of earrings is envisaged.
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Duration: 2 days.

Fusing with Argentium Silver:
Argentium, the new .925 silver allows us to granulate with ease. Ronda teaches how to work with this metal without the use of solder for constructing jewellery.
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Duration: 3 days.

Acid Free Etching and Rivetting:
This course with acid free etching allows students to create their own textures without the dangers of nitric acid. Christine will continue the course using different methods of rivetting for cold connections.
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Duration: 3 days.

Jewellery Making Advanced:
For those who wish to diversify, or develop their skills in an area of their own choosing. On prior request a demonstration of either granulation or anticlastic raising may also be included.
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Duration: 5 days.

Chasing and Repoussé:
This basic process is one that all jewellers should master. The results being personal to each creating the play of light and shadows. Using punches and a hammer low and high relief are created on sheet metal. This process uses the plasticity of the metal.
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Duration: 3 days.

Mokume Gane Production For The Jeweller:
The technique involves soldering and sandwiching different metals together, then braking through the layers of metals to reveal the wonderful patterns that define Mokume Gane.
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Duration: 2 days.

Introduction to Engraving:
For the surface decoration of jewellery, the design and layout of letter forms for inscriptions and the production of heraldic devices will all be covered. Students will produce hand cut copper plates.
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Duration: 2 days.

Figurative Modelling:
Miniature people sculpted in wax and cast for use in jewellery. Castings may be produced in silver during the "Casting course".
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Duration: 2 days.

Beginners Week:
Commencing with the 2 day 'Introduction to Jewellery Making' course and continuing with the 'Intermediate' course and other very useful jewellery making techniques. Students learn many skills and are able to use these in many different ways to create their own designs at home after completing the course.
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Duration: 5 days.

Tiara Making:
Instruction will be given in the basic techniques required to produce a tiara. This will include covering tiara bases in crystals, pearls or wire and the creation of beaded flowers, leaves and branched beads to give the tiara height and form.
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Duration: 1 day.

Wire Wrapping:
Wire wrapping is one of the oldest jewellery making techniques. A centuries old tradition, it requires a minimum amount of tools. The jewellery made on the course uses twisted and interlocked wire with no soldering or gluing necessary. Unusual shaped stones may be set in interesting and creative ways.
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Duration: 2 day.

Precious Metal Clay:
Art Clay silver clay looks and feels much like ordinary sculpting or porcelain clay. What makes Art Clay so fantastic is that it consists of extremely fine particles of pure metal (silver or gold), dust, mixed with a non-toxic organic binder and water. The clay burns away during firing, leaving you with a fine silver piece, which can be hallmarked. This course is suitable for complete beginners.
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Duration: 2 day.

Keum Boo:
A traditional Korean surface embellishment technique for fussing 24 carat gold foil onto silver. An inexpensive way to add gold highlights to your jewellery designs. This course is suitable for students who have basic jewellery fabrication experience.
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Duration: 1 day.

Forged Silver Spoon Making:
The silver spoon is forged in Britannia silver from a single bar of metal, the students having made a prototype in copper on the first day of the course. Duncan teaches the correct way of forging with a hammer using the whole arm and not the wrist.
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Duration: 2 day.

Chain Maille:
On completion of this couse you will be proficient with parallel, flower chain, 4in1, 4in1 round, and 4in1 inverted round plus you will learn the cousin of the "The Turkish Round maille". This course is suitable for complete beginners.
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Duration: 2 day.

Master Class Chain Maille:
Master Class in Chain Maille for students who have already attended our 2 day Chain Maille course and wish to further their skills, coming soon.
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Duration: 1 day.

Dichroic Glass:
The first day begins with learning the basics of small scaled fused glass, using Dichroic glass to make pendants and/or cabochons. The course will cover choosing glass, adding metal inclusions, layering glass, how the hole is created during fusing, stages of fusing and annealing and finishing.
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Duration: 2 days.

Beading:
On completion of this course students will be capable of designing and producing jewellery using the various techniques learned. Bead stringing requires a minimum amount of tools.
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Duration: 1 day.

Freeform Gemstone Carving:
Practical course by Memory Stather to give students an introduction to gemstone carving. You will start work with a relatively soft material as you are introduced to the carving processes moving on to harder stone.
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Duration: 4 days.

Laser Welding:
Using lasers in jewellery with an emphasis on gaining practical experience.
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Duration: 1 day. Please contact to arrange your preferred date.

Stone Setting:
This course is a must for the student who wishes to learn how to set stones. The tutor is John Russel, a professional setter for many years, who has lectured in setting at the UCE Birmingham. This course is suitable for the complete beginner. Should you wish to join "beginner's stone setting" course, please contact InTheStudio for further information.
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Duration: 5 days.

Box Making Day:
Rex Cooper has made silver boxes to celebrate many occasions. In this two-day course he will teach the basic methods and trade secrets that he has used for more than 20 years. Each student will learn to form the box, solder the seams and finish the outer and inner surfaces.
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Duration: 2 days.

Jobbing Jeweller's Day:
Private lessons are arranged by the hour. Please contact the school.
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Wedding Rings:
InTheStudio has been asked on several occasions if we would run a course for making wedding rings. The course includes designing and fabricating of some practice rings before a final finished wedding band is made. This course is now run as a private lesson. To book this course for you and your spouse to be, please contact the school.
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Duration: 2 day.

Nightschool:
Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday week day evening classes.
You don't loose time on our night school course if you miss a night as we allow time to be made up.
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Other Courses:
If you are interested in a two day Painting Enamel Course or a two day Trembler work course please email through Contact us.

If you are interested in Stone Setting one afternoon or evening per week commencing October through to December please Contact us.

If you are interested in Hand Engraving With Advanced Technology using compressed air and engraving in a traditional manner please Contact us. This course is being run as a one day private lesson. This takes out the hard work and allows creativity to shine through. We have a course granulating and fusing with argentium silver, the new silver and germanium mix. Our lecturer for this course will be Ronda Coryell who is a renound lecturer from the U.S.A. This course, working with argentium silver, will be in July so contact us if you would like a place reserving.

Courses below held at 'edib', Palma, Mallorca, Spain

Precious Metal Clay in Spain:
Art Clay silver clay looks and feels much like ordinary sculpting or porcelain clay. What makes Art Clay so fantastic is that it consists of extremely fine particles of pure metal (silver or gold), dust, mixed with a non-toxic organic binder and water. The clay burns away during firing, leaving you with a fine silver piece, which can be hallmarked. This course is suitable for complete beginners.
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Duration: 2 evenings.

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