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Daytime courses and classes in jewellery making

Flux Courses for 2017
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Back to school – Learn to shape, connect and colour metals for jewellery

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You’ve got the maker’s mindset – so let’s create! What are you doing on...
Advanced Soldering skills for jewellery

Soldering Masterclass

Master the art of soldering to improve your jewellery techniques. Book Now – Soldering...
examples of jewellery people can make on jewellery courses in fold forming, wax carving and stone setting, all starting April 2016
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Exciting new jewellery courses for April – book now

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New jewellery courses for April – Learn how to set stones, explore new ways to work with wax as a modelling material for lost wax casting, make amazing organic 3D wearable forms using Charles Lewton-Brain’s fold forming techniques.

developmental drawings and final render of the Flowering by Vicky Forrester
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Six super tips for perfecting your jewellery skills.

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Your jewellery design might look great on paper, but turning it from idea to reality can be a tricky business. if you need that extra input to see how to create triumph from near disaster remember we are here at Flux, ever ready to feed your creative soul! Jewellery courses at Flux Jewellery School

Vitreous enamelling techniques on copper, steel and silver
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Jewellery Courses 2015-2016

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Our expert jewellers at Flux have devised a range of unusual and stimulating jewellery courses and workshops for you to come and develop your skills. Don’t forget to check out our regular 10 week courses that run every term – autumn, spring and summer. Learn all about chain making, find out how to recycle your scrap silver, explore forming techniques, make a ring, set a stone….. we hope we have something for everyone here, and everything for some keen students too!

Silver ring with crushed stone inlay

Jewellery Inlay Techniques with Crushed Stone (CS04)

This weekend course introduces students to the exciting art of inlaying crushed stones into silver collets of various shapes. Traditional in Central and South America, this process will allow you to create beautiful silver jewellery of rich and intense colours. We will discuss and learn about different stones in their rough forms and each student will prepare their own stone dust and mixture of colours for their design. Book now.

Wax Techniques For Jewellery Making

Wax Techniques For Jewellery Making (A24)

On this 10 week jewellery course you will have the opportunity to explore a range of wax techniques for jewellery making, including how to make one- off models for lost wax casting. Understand how size and dimension affects the weight of your final piece in various metals and learn how to reduce weight without compromising the visual impact of your design. Make a prototype that can be reproduced to make multiples of the same design. Book now.

Fabric, threads and papers can be combined with metal to make unusual jewellery

Beyond Metal – Interdisciplinary Craft Skills For Contemporary Jewellery Practice (TX04))

Book Now. If you love the softness of silk, delicacy of lace, intensity of leather or the natural look of cotton, and want to incorporate these qualities into your jewellery, this course is for you!

Combining textiles with metal elements can give permanence to the etherial qualities of fabric, and we will explore a number of ways to draw contrasting elements together using a variety of joining methods including cold connections like riveting, screw threading and weaving.

Recycling silver - smelt your scrap, process it into sheet , wire, or cast it into a new piece of jewellery

Recycling Silver (A23)

Recycling silver: 10 week jewellery making course, How to identify precious metals, how to prepare, Melt and cast scrap into ingots or bars; how to process into sheet and wire. Book now.

Advanced Soldering skills for jewellery

Improve Soldering Skills (A22)

Jewellery class – Focus on improving your soldering skills, while developing your own jewellery project(s). Book now.
Soldering Skills – Weekly group tutorials and demonstrations examining the nitty gritty of soldering, from basic to complex procedures over 10 weeks. Personal Project – continue to develop your own jewellery projects with as much assistance as you need from your tutor.