Jewellery Making for Beginners - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

Learn to create your own jewellery pieces using a mix of new and upcycled materials. On this course, you’ll learn how to design and make beautiful jewellery, from simple bracelets and earrings to more advanced creations like charm brooches and adjustable necklaces. You’ll explore a variety of tools and techniques in a friendly, beginner-friendly environment where creativity and personal style are encouraged.

This course introduces you to a range of jewellery-making techniques. You’ll learn how to safely use tools such as round-nosed and flat-nosed pliers, identify and handle findings (like clasps, crimp beads, and jump rings), and design and construct well-balanced pieces. Starting with a simple single-strand bracelet, you’ll progress to necklaces, earrings, and more decorative items. You’ll also be encouraged to bring in old or broken jewellery, as you’ll learn how to reuse beads and components to create something completely new.

There is no need for previous experience.

What will you achieve by the end of the course?

• Identify and safely use a range of common jewellery-making tools and findings

• Design and make beaded jewellery using wire, crimping, and fastening techniques

• Create jewellery components using headpins, wire loops, and basic wirework skills

• Apply jewellery-making techniques to create a variety of accessories and decorative items

• Repurpose beads or components from old or broken jewellery to create something new and unique

What you will need to bring to the course:

• tiger tail (nylon coated wire)

• crimp beads

• findings (fastenings, soldered jump rings, lobster claw clasps, earwires, ear hooks, kilt pins)

• crimp beads (tube)

• silver coloured beads

• rocailles

• seed beads

• small beads

• glass pearls

• bead trays or bead boards

• tape measure

• Tools – May be supplied by Inspire if you do not own

  crimp tool

  round-nosed pliers

  flat-nosed pliers

  snips

  wire cutters

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.