Sea Glass Setting Workshop – Thurs 14 Aug - 6-9:30pm - Great Linford - £65

Name: Sea Glass Setting Workshop – Thurs 14 Aug - 6-9:30pm - Great Linford - £65
Start: 2025-08-14T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-08-14T21:30:00+01:00
Location: Milton Keynes Arts Centre

Schedule

Thu Aug 14 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Milton Keynes Arts Centre | Milton Keynes, EN

On this 3.5 hour sea glass setting workshop at our teaching studio in Great Linford, you will learn how to encase sea glass into fine silver frames to create beautiful pendants or earrings. Choose from pieces we cave collected from Charlouth, Scotland and Cornwall or bring your own.
Experienced tutor Beccy will gently guide you through a wealth of techniques to enable you to make your very own pieces of jewellery from these lovely treasures of the sea.
You will learn how to:
* Select the perfect piece of sea glass
* Measure your glass
* Select and form the appropriate fine silver strip size for the glass
* Solder setting and jump rings
* Make fittings using pliers and silver wires for your pendant or earrings
* Solder all components together
* Use acrylic and metal stone setting tools to secure your glass
* Sand and polish your piece

Tutor: Beccy
Materials: All materials for 2 pendants are included in the course fee.
Level: Some experience of soldering and stone setting is beneficial but not essential