Jewellery Making Next Steps - West Bridgford Library - Adult Learning

• Date: 29 June - 13 July 2024
• Sessions: Saturdays: 10am - 12pm
• No. sessions: 3
• Venue: West Bridgford Library, Nottingham
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 12
• Cost: FREE - £18

Learn to create intermediate jewellery designs using beads and wire, including bracelets, necklaces and earrings

This 3 week Jewellery Making - Next Steps course is aimed at those with some experience and/or have completed the Jewellery Making Beginners course. Improving on your existing skills, you will create a beaded charm-style bracelet in week one, followed by a statement beaded necklace design in week two, finishing with beaded earrings in week three.

By the end of the course, you will:

• Have created a variety of bracelets, necklaces and earrings
• Learn how to create wire links
• Learn simple bead-weaving
• Learn how to create multi-link beaded earrings
• Increase creative confidence
• Improve hand/eye coordination

Please Bring:

• Selection of beads, including some at least 8mm in diameter and some size 8 seed beads
• Beading Wire (often called by the brand names Beadalon or Tiger Tail)
• Jewellery Wire in 0.6mm diameter
• Monofilament / Fishing Wire in 0.25mm or 0.30mm (often called by the brand name Supplemax)
• Findings in your choice of plating
• Clasps
• Necklace Ends (sometimes called Callottes or Bead Tips)
• 4mm and 6mm Jump Rings
• Earrings (Fishhook or any style including clip-on with a loop at the bottom)
• Headpins
• Crimp Beads
• Size 2 crimp tubes
• Tools:
• Set of Jewellery Pliers (including Round Nose Pliers, Cutters and at least one pair of Chain Nose Pliers, two pairs are helpful)
• Bead mat or Tray

Some suggested places to get these from are:

• The Range
• Hobbycraft
• Boyes
• The Bead Shop Nottingham
• Amazon

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 furtherinformation 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

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• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: [email protected]

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