January 17th, 2011
Hi, I am Deborah and I work with Caroline in making jewellery for our website. My collection is called DB Dualities. Ken and Caroline are really busy in their new shop so I am taking over the posts and website in between handmaking jewellery!
We have been concentrating on handmaking jump ring jewelry lately which can be seen under latest products on our website. It is amazing the jewellery that can be produced from jump rings, particularly when combined with beads. There are so many different types of links and then combined with different sizes of jump rings, different wire gauges and different types of wire. It is mind blowing.
I will be posting more about jump ring jewellery 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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Tags: beads, bronze, Czech crystal, Dichroic Glass, handmade jewellery, pmc, polymer, silver, wire
April 18th, 2010
Silver & Gold Wire Bracelet
One of the things I love about working with wire for jewellery is that the number of variations and different types of jewellery that can be made using wire are virtually limitless. Firstly the wire comes in different strengths varying from soft to hard depending on what type of jewellery project you are undertaking. The wire can also be bought in different thickness from 0.2mm to 2mm. My favourite thickness to work with when making coiled and spiral wire jewellery is 0.8mm or 0.6mm.
- Silver & Copper Coiled Wire Bracelet
For example most of my findings i.e. jump rings, earring backs, clasps etc. are made using 0.8mm wire. Another aspect I like about making wire jewellery is that there is a large selection of metal to choose from. I have made jewellery using gold, silver silver plated and copper wire. Coloured copper wire can also be bought adding a different aspect to the jewellery, I particularly like working with red, blue and pink. The bracelet above was made using sterling silver and copper wire. The links and inside spirals for the beads were made with 0.8mm and the outer spirals were 0.6mm coiled around the inner spiral.
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April 12th, 2010
- Gold Plated Bracelet With Polymer Beads
Two mediums that I like working with are polymer clay and wire. I use various types of metal wire; silver, copper and gold of varying thickness. The wire can be used to make earrings, pendants, rings and bracelets and I usually choose the wire to match the colour of the piece I am making.
Polymer clay is a perfect medium for fashioning beads and pendants of varying size and shape. In its raw state the clay has a consistency of plasticine, it can be shaped and moulded by hand and colours combined without running into one another. Once it baked it can be drilled, sanded an polished.
The bracelet to the left is from a collection entitled “flower garden”. It was made with 0.8mm gold plated wire and the square beads were fashioned from different colours of polymer clay. The collection consists of a pendant, earrings and bracelet. If you would like to see the collection or any other jewellery I have made using wire and polymer then visit
The Silver Jewellery Workshop Store and browse. I hope you enjoy the experience.
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Tags: bracelet, earrings, gold, pendant, polymer, wire
