Fancy 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.
Learning modes and locations may be different depending on the course start date. Please check the location of your chosen course and read our guide to learning modes and locations to help you choose the right course for you.
Please note: We offer a wide variety of financial support to make courses affordable. Just visit our online Help Centre for more information on a range of topics including fees, online learning and FAQs.
This course is an opportunity to develop your jewellery design practice and learn to work more independently on your own projects in a supportive, challenging and creative teaching environment. If you are already experienced in jewellery-making and are confident piercing, filing, drilling, annealing, soldering, bending and forming metal with minimal supervision, this course is ideal for you to perfect your ongoing skills, discover different techniques and consider new ways of approaching design and making.
You'll work independently on your own projects all with the guidance of an expert jewellery-maker and the use of a fully equipped jewellery studio.
What previous students loved about the course:
"That I could work on my individual design and was free to work at my own pace.".
What will we cover?
There are no set topics or class-wide projects in the Jewellery Design Lab: you should bring to class some ideas of what you would like to make, and with guidance from the tutor you will realise these plans at your own pace, picking up new skills, techniques and approaches along the way.
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
- Recognise the working properties of metal and other materials - Use a range of techniques used in the making of pieces - Identify and use a range of hand tools and types of machinery with confidence - Recognise and implement good health and safety practice in the workshop.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
The course is held in a well-equipped workshop setting, and is taught through demonstrations and photographic examples, with individual support and advice given to guide and extend your abilities. There are no class-wide projects, rather the tutor will guide you in developing your own work.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
City Lit provides most of the tools and equipment you will need for jewellery-making, and basic materials in reasonable quantities such as base metals, hard solder, paper, enamel, chemicals, and sundries (etching resist, polishing compound). However you will need to buy some specific items such as saw blades, emery paper, medium and easy solder, precious metals, and stones. You will also need a sketchbook for your design work and to write notes. As you gain experience you might want to invest in your own tools.
You are advised that sensible footwear must be worn in the studio. For health and safety reasons no sandals, open shoes or small pumps can be worn, even in hot weather.
Please bring your own apron and safety glasses.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
City Lit offer a wide range of short and year-long courses in Jewellery design and making, from beginners to advanced, and for professional development.
Suitable follow-on courses may include:
VV863 Jewellery: design lab
VV362 Introduction to stone setting: casting with stones
VV123 Jewellery: raising repousee and fold-forming
Your tutor will be able to advise you on your course.
Trained at the Royal College of Art, Dutch born designer Louise Seijen ten Hoorn lives and works in London where she creates one-off pieces, small production ranges and commissions from her studio in Pimlico. Louise works predominantly in metal, as well as materials such as plastic and rubber, to create jewellery, objects and small sculptures. To find out more about Louise’s work visit www.louiseseijentenhoorn.com
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
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