June 28th, 2010
Apologies for no new posts for a while but we were working constantly towards the opening of our new workshop in San Fulgencio, Spain. After several weeks of delays, disruptions and typical Spanish red tape the Workshop opened on Saturday and the first course took place this morning at 10am; spiral silver bracelets made with silver and coloured copper wire. Courses will run every Monday during the summer and I am hoping to run a kids polymer clay course on Saturday mornings during the summer holidays, details to follow soon.
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June 1st, 2010
Silver Earrings Made With A Jig
The latest silver jewellery workshop was on Monday 31st May in the Gran Alacant area on the Costa Blanca in Spain. The course was an intermediate level lesson focusing on the use of a jig to create silver wire jewellery.
For those not familiar with the jig it is basically a metal plate perforated with holes drilled evenly through the plate. Metal pins are placed in the holes to create varying designs and patterns and then jewelllery making wire is looped around the pins to make the shape required. The advantage of using a jig, especially with earrings, is that the shape is uniform with the twists and curls in the wire nice and tight. It is much harder to create uniform loops using a pair of pliers. The course was well attended and all the students successfully made two sets of earrings using their jigs. Photos will be put in the photo album soon.
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May 12th, 2010
- Silver Spiral Ring With Czech Crystal
As I have already mentioned I have been experimenting a lot with coiled silver wire, trying to create different and unique styles of jewellery. My latest efforts involve incorporating Czech glass crystal and glass pearls. I love the differing colours of Czech glass and try to combine them to make exciting colour combinations.
For the ring pictured on the left I used 0.8mm silver wire and coiled it to make the band. Using the same width of wire I attached several Czech glass crystal beads and glass pearls. I wiil be teaching the spiral technique when my new workshop/school opens in La Marina, Alicante on the 1st of June. Other courses available will be jewellery making with polymer clay, silver wire, art clay silver and bronze clay, dichroic glass and beading. For more information I can be contacted via the website
bespokejewellery.net
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May 2nd, 2010
- The Students And Their Jewellery
On Tuesday 27th April I held an advanced polymer clay techniques course at Gran Alicant on the Costa Blanca in Spain. The course was attended by three students; Sandy, Sue and Denise. The first part of the course involved selecting the colours of clay we were going to use then making flower and leaf canes to decorate our jewellery. After a break for lunch we made a pendant and beads with clay and then sliced our canes to decorate them. The canes were carefully placed on the jewellery which was then baked to harden it. The final step was to varnish the finished pendant and beads prior to threading them. The course went really well with all three students enjoying themselves thoroughly and making lovely jewellery. In conclusion I would like to say the ladies did a great job and I look forward to seeing them regularly when my new studio opens in La Marina this month. If you would like to see more photos of the course then have a look in the album on the page Jewellery Course Photos.
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