Wooden Jewellery With Silver And Pearl Inlay Short Course
Course description
Course overview
Taking place over a single weekend this course explores how to make contemporary sculptural jewellery pieces using wood with silver inlay and pearls.
There will be guided exercises which you can adapt to create your own designs. You will have the opportunity to look at finished pieces. Step-by-step hand-outs and material sourcing information will also be provided.
The first project will be a pendant of 5mm depth wood inlaid with small silver dots. The second project will be to make a ring or pendant with 10mm depth wood and silver line and or an inlaid pearl. There will then be time to experiment with different woods, designs and shaping or decorating techniques.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for complete beginners or those with experience of working with metal who want to add skills in another material by making minor adaptation to their current hand-tools.
By the end of the course, you will have finished jewellery pieces in wood of your own design and the skills to continue experimentation on your own if desire.
Key information
Topics covered
- Identifying suitable woods
- Creating your own jewellery design
- Simple inlays of silver dots and lines
- How to inlay pearls into wood
Learning outcomes
- Know how to inlay silver dots and lines into wood
- Know how to attach pearls to wood
- Be aware of sustainability issues and suitability of different woods
- Learn a range of cold connections to make completed pieces of jewellery
- Come away with completed pendants and rings of your own design
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance.
Materials
- Pen
- Paper
- Apron
Tutor
Sarah King
Sarah King is an established jeweller specialising in mixing precious and non-precious materials in jewellery and using them to make sculptural and tactile pieces. She has sold her work through department stores such at Liberty and Barneys, New York and the art jewellery gallery Jewellers' Werk Galerie in Washington DC. Since 2000 she has been experimenting with cast bioresin and these works are in public and private collections (including Crafts Council and the British Council), and has worked on many books on contemporary jewellery. She has won the Association of Contemporary Jewellery Prize and several Goldsmiths' Craftmanship and Design Awards.
She has taught specialist classes in plastics, wood and silver jewellery for over 15 years and in 2019 published her first book 'Creating Jewellery in Wood'. For 16 years she was based in the innovative makers hub Cockpit Arts in London and now lives and works in Lewes, East Sussex.
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