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 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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Tags: handmade jewellery, jewellery lessons, polymer, silver
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
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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Tags: courses, handmade jewellery, polymer
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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Tags: bracelet, copper, gold, handmade jewellery, silver, wire
March 18th, 2010
Hello and welcome to the first post of The Bespoke Jewellery Blog. Here we hope to create interesting articles, discussions and tutorials relating to the world of handcrafted jewellery. If you are interested in handmade jewellery then join us as we talk about jewellery made in sterling and pure silver, bronze, copper, polymer, glass and crystal. If you are interested in the world of silver and Pandora style jewellery then why not have a look at the blog of our sister site at The Silver Jewellery Workshop. Thank you for visiting and we hope to see you again soon.
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Tags: bronze, copper, crystal, glass, handmade jewellery, polymer, silver
