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.

Design and Make a Silver ring

Design and Make a Silver Ring (G18)

Book now. By the end of this course you will know how to cut, file and polish metals like copper and silver, texture metal using pressing and punching techniques, hammer and punch sheet into 3d form, permanently join 2 or more elements together using traditional silver soldering techniques, forge wires into unusual and unique forms. You can make your experiments into bangles, earrings and pendants – and you will have designed and made a uniquely you ring in silver.

casting techniques for jewellery, delft casting with precious metals
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Casting silver with stone and gem inclusions

When casting silver into a delft clay mould you have to be open to all manner of success; opening the mould is always a breath-holding moment!

There wasn’t much time for taking photos this week – but the Tuesday highlight goes to Lynn, who successfully cast a silver ring with a quartz inclusion

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P is for… Precious! UK’s hallmark letter for 2014

The letter element that is included in our traditional UK hallmark tells you the year in which a piece of precious jewellery was made and submitted for assay. Each year this letter changes; we progress through the alphabet year on year (omitting the letter j) – with a change in font and/or the stamp shape at the end of the 23 year cycle. Thus 2014 is distinguishable from the hallmark of 1989 by the letter being in lower case as well as by the sharp modernity of the font.

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Creative Chain Making (C22)

Intermediate Jewellery Making – Creative chain making and other connections. 10 Week course (Evenings, Thu). Book...
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.

innovative approaches to jewellery making at Flux Studios - using magnets to create beautiful wearables. Rare earth magnets, haematite, steel bar
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Instant attraction and magnetic charm at Flux!

Our theme for the term on Tuesdays is on the use of magnets for clasps in jewellery, and as it is our firm belief that play holds the key to true innovation, today we played like kiddies in a toyshop!
Drawing from the deep recesses half-remembered facts on the laws of magnetic attraction – along with some cautions for pacemakers and credit cards – students were sent on a hunt to find the most unusual magnetic objects..

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Specialist Workshops for Jewellers

We have some very exciting jewellery workshops in specialist techniques coming up at Flux.

Here are two weekend courses coming up in the next months.

1. Sat/Sun 20/21 October – Keum Boo workshop with Barbara Yarde.

2. Sat/Sun 15/16 December – Etching Techniques for Jewellery with Becky Dockree

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Free and subsidised Jewellery Courses in South London

More great Jewellery Courses at Flux Studios. We are once again offering our special weekend Jewellery courses from our well equipped South London Studios. Because of a subsidy from the local council these two day short courses and family workshops are now being sponsored for the year ahead. Our weekend courses offer great value at £80 / £40 for local residents, and weekday jewellery courses are free! Please visit the website for more details

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hot new jewellery courses book now

Make It in 2011! (Design and make your own jewellery)

Are you ready for something new?

Why not treat yourself to a course here at Flux Studios! Whether you’re new to jewellery making or if you fancy improving skills and developing new techniques, you can be sure of the best possible tuition to meet your needs. Techniques we will be exploring this term include wax carving (for casting), making hollow forms, and creative approaches to joining elements together using links and linkages. At beginners level soldering will also be a focus for skills development.

make a charm in silver with a stone setting
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New jewellery course Wednesday evenings!

We’ve set up a new set of evening courses in response to demand; this new series of courses (coded G0) is an exciting development for Flux Studios as each 6 week block will be led by Flux members. For these courses our acclaimed contemporary jewellers will usually be working in pairs, and with 2 tutors to 12 students you can expect excellent personal tuition.