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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We host exhibitions throughout the year at City Lit Gallery where our students showcase their amazing work.
- Try it out: jewellery makingCourse start date: Mon 8 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elizabeth BoneBasic jewellery-making techniques such as texturing and cutting out shapes in sheet metal.
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - Jewellery: design lab
Course start date: Wed 17 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)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 pieces.
Full fee £499.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £324.00 - Develop your jewellery design and making Course start date: Wed 17 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
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.
Full fee £729.00 Senior fee £583.00 Concession £474.00 - City Lit contemporary jewelleryCourse start date: Thu 18 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elizabeth Bone, Tanvi Kant, Louise Seijen Ten HoornDelve into the world of contemporary jewellery and develop your skills in drawing, design, critical thinking and technical skills. This rigorous, multi-disciplinary year long course is suitable for intermediate to advanced jewellers. Get to grips with a series of practical projects which will culminate in an end of year public exhibition.
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Full fee £1,949.00 Senior fee £1,559.00 Concession £1,267.00 - Jewellery making: all levels Course start date: Sat 20 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kevin StevensonEver wanted to make your own jewellery? Try out jewellery-making, getting to grips with the basic processes and techniques for using metal to create simple yet beautiful earrings, rings, pendants and bracelets to your own
designs.Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £272.00 - City Lit beginners' jewellery Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Noon MitchelhillEver wanted to try making your own jewellery but not sure where to start? Delve into this intricate and rewarding craft with our year long structured beginner's course. Pick up the basics in everything from research and design to technical skills including soldering, annealing, etching and stone setting.Full fee £2,069.00 Senior fee £1,655.00 Concession £1,345.00 - City Lit improvers jewelleryCourse start date: Tue 23 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This year long course is for students who have completed the beginners Jewellery course and want to refine existing skills as well as gaining experience in a range of Jewellery –making processes.
This course will come with a City lit Certificate at the end showing the skills that have been learnt.
Full fee £1,899.00 Senior fee £1,519.00 Concession £1,234.00 - Jewellery: stone setting ICourse start date: Thu 25 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rae DuncanEnjoy making your own jewellery, but want to develop your mount-making and stone-setting techniques? Discover essential techniques in setting a gem stone, including round bezel and tube settings, with the guidance of an expert tutor.
Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £272.00 - Intermediate jewellery I Course start date: Fri 26 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sally LeesHave you taken a beginners’ course and are looking to progress your jewellery making? Develop and refine your design and making skills through guided projects applying a range of precision skills to create metal jewellery. Intermediate Jewellery I focuses on surface, hollow forms and mechanisms. You will be encouraged to experiment with scale, with an emphasis on volumetric form.
Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £272.00 - Try it out: precious metal clay jewelleryCourse start date: Sat 1 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elizabeth PearsonWant to experience working with one of the most versatile and effective materials in jewellery making? Come and get to grips with precious metal clay, which handles like clay but turns into pure silver when fired.
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - Beginners' jewellery ICourse start date: Sun 2 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rebecca IlettLearn all the basics of metal jewellery work by making a range of sample pieces in copper and a finished jewellery piece of your own design. You will be shown how to buy silver so you can take home at least one wearable piece.
Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £272.00 - Jewellery: wax carvingCourse start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Carve, model and experiment with wax to create your own unique jewellery designs. Learn about the lost wax casting process, outsourcing and finishing of your casts.
Full fee £289.00 Senior fee £231.00 Concession £188.00 - Introduction to stone setting: flush and gypsy settingCourse start date: Sat 8 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rae DuncanGypsy setting, often called flush setting is a technique to set a small round and brilliant cut faceted stone on a metal surface. On this course you will be introduced to the principles and applications of this versatile technique, including making your own bespoke setting tools.
Full fee £329.00 Senior fee £263.00 Concession £214.00 - Introduction to diamondsCourse start date: Sat 29 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Judith Crowe, Derek JhinnooGypsy setting, often called flush setting is a technique to set a small round and brilliant cut faceted stone on a metal surface. On this course you will be introduced to the principles and applications of this versatile technique, including making your own bespoke setting tools.
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - 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
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