Jewellery making courses in London
Taught by a team of expert jewellery tutors, we offer a diverse range of jewellery design and making courses. Take your pick from introductory courses for those who want to learn how to make a ring through to more specialist courses that focus on techniques such as engraving, electroforming, CAD/CAM, wax carving, casting, grain setting, technical drawing, resin, beading and much more.
Our purpose-built jewellery studio provides access to industry standard equipment with good natural light and all courses have basic materials provided. Please read the full course outline before you book as the tutor will list anything you need to bring along.
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- Precious metal clay: setting stones
Course start date: Thu 20 Mar 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elizabeth PearsonEver fancied experimenting with metal clay and exploring how to set stones in your jewellery? Whether you are a complete novice or an experienced jeweller, this fascinating course will guide you through setting stones using handmade settings. You will develop your own ideas and designs, and practise a range of techniques to create your own striking metal clay work.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - Jewellery: Keum Boo workshop Course start date: Sat 22 Mar 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rae DuncanExplore the ancient Korean art of ‘Keum Boo’, often called ‘gold overlay’. Learn how to add decorative gold accents to silver jewellery. Ideal for beginners and experienced jewellers alike.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £169.00 - Repousse for jewellers Course start date: Sun 30 Mar 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rae DuncanLearn the ancient method of decorating and forming metal, where parts of the design are raised in relief from the back or the inside, using punches and chasing tools.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Try it out: jewellery making Course start date: Mon 7 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Linda ConnellyAn introduction to jewellery techniques and skills to enable you to make a simple pendant. A starter course for beginners.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £169.00 - Introduction to engraving Course start date: Wed 9 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rae DuncanLearn traditional methods of hand engraving to create beautiful embellished surfaces. This course is for Intermediate and advanced jewellery students. - Try it out: jewellery making weekend Course start date: Sat 12 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kinga OlahAimed at beginners or those wanting a refresher. Join this action packed weekend to make a pendant and silver ring. Implementing fundamental jewellery making techniques, you will gain the basic skills you need to make simple jewellery in metal.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £169.00 - Costume jewellery 1800 to now Course start date: Sun 13 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Judith Crowe, Derek JhinnooCostume jewellery tends to be viewed as the poor cousin of fine jewellery but the reality is far from that. This is a one day course that looks at the history of costume jewellery from 1600 and how the advances in materials and technology made it so popular. Tutor: Judith Crowe. - Jewellery making: cold connections Course start date: Mon 14 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elizabeth BoneWould you like to learn how to combine / integrate materials and objects that are not metal into your jewellery making without the use of heat? This course offers you the opportunity to explore joining several different materials together using a variety of cold connection techniques such as rivets and tabs. Come and experiment with a number of techniques and adapt them to use with your own designs.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Try it out: knotting and stringing for beads and pearls Course start date: Wed 16 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Beverley SellBy exploring a range of beaded jewellery techniques you will learn how to string beads and how to knot between beads and pearls. You will also learn how to attach simple clasps and findings to bracelets, necklaces and earrings. - Jewellery making: all levels Course start date: Sat 26 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kevin StevensonEver wanted to turn your hand to making your own jewellery? Or done it before and would like to hone your skills with a professional tutor? From beginners to experienced jewellers, come and practise making metal jewellery to your own designs, whether you're picking up the basics of cutting, forming and texturing, or taking your designs to the next level with complex approaches such as chain-making. - Beginners' jewellery III Course start date: Sun 27 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rebecca IlettBeginners 3 is the perfect continuation for those who have some metal jewellery making experience and would like to expand on their basic metal working skills by learning wax carving and casting. Wax carving lends itself very well to creating organic and fluid forms that can’t be made with sheet and wire. There will be set projects as well as the opportunity to experiment and develop your own designs.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Jewellery: design lab Course start date: Wed 30 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Louise Seijen Ten HoornFancy working on your own jewellery projects in a professional workshop with an expert tutor? Join our interactive
Jewellery Design Lab to perfect your skills, try different techniques, and discover new design approaches. Develop your own projects with expert guidance, and step outside your comfort zone to produce top-quality piecesyour own jewellery designs? - Develop your jewellery design and making Course start date: Wed 30 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elizabeth BoneFancy honing your jewellery-making skills in a professional workshop with an expert tutor? If you're an intermediate to advanced jewellery-maker and would like to improve your designs and push your technical skills to a higher standard, this hands-on, expert-led course is for you. Perfect your skills, try different techniques, and discover new design approaches. - Jewellery: stone setting III Course start date: Thu 1 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rae DuncanAlready explored some of the skills of mount-making and stone-setting but want to take your expertise to another level? Experience the more complicated techniques of mounting a variety of stone shapes, as well as practising your grasp of claw and collet settings. Integrate new stone-setting techniques with your existing knowledge to give the ultimate professional finish to your jewellery.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Jewellery: soldering workshop Course start date: Tue 6 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elizabeth BoneDoes your soldering let your jewellery work down? If you would like to practise without worrying about the outcome, get expert help and improve your understanding and technique, then come and join this practical course. Soon you will be soldering with confidence.
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