Jewellery Making for Beginners - Retford Library - Adult Learning

About this course

About this course

On this course, you will learn a range of jewellery making skills, along with design techniques so that you are able to make a range of well-designed jewellery items.  We will look at recycling techniques and make items using less traditional, recycled materials. 

We will look at how to work safely and alternative approaches to skills and design. We will examine designs with contrasting or harmonious colours, as well as use tools and materials safely. We will analyse different world designs and purposes and analyse how to create their own beads.  An understanding of the value of materials including recycled materials, in order to remake and repurpose materials in jewellery design will be developed by attending this course. By the end of the course, you will be able to combine techniques and use a range of materials to create a unique jewellery set. 

Please bring broken jewellery to remake, if you have any.  

Suggested reading for the course:

• Making beautiful bead & wire jewelry: 30 step-by-step projects from materials old and new - Author: Jones, Linda. 
• Practical  jewellery-making  techniques: problem solving by O'Keeffe, Stephen. 

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of 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 webpage for further information  https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking.  If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• 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