Jewellery and Silversmithing

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This Jewellery course will teach you to work with various metals including silver, copper and brass. Project sheets will be given to inspire your designing to help you create unique "one off" items of jewellery. Practical demonstrations and handouts will be given for every new technical process you will learn. Each project sheet given will cover new technical processes and many different visual inspirations will be given i.e. artists, nature, architecture and different cultures. , Initially techniques covered will be; silver soldering, forming, sawing, emerying/filing, texturing and polishing. , Additional technical processes that maybe taught, i.e. metal clay, riveting, casting, granulation, reticulation, stone setting, fold forming, oxidisation and enamelling., By the end of the course you will be able to:, Use the technique of soldering to manipulate silver or metal, Implement design in your work through specific project sheets , Set stones in order of ease; bezel settings, tube settings and finally claw settings., Carve wax and learn every aspect of the Lost Wax process., and be aware of and work to relevant Health and Safety guidelines,

Course information

Name: Jewellery and Silversmithing Qualification title: Non regulated Community Learning provision, Crafts, Creative Arts and Design Qualification type: Assessment Awarding Generic award - no awarding body Created 20161018 12:21:01 Updated 20161018 12:21:01

Entry requirements

Please bring a notebook and pen and apron to the first session who will advise of what you will need during the course. Silver and metals can be provided at the centre that you can buy. Equipment required Please bring a notebook and pen and apron to the first session who will advise of what you will need during the course. Silver and metals can be provided at the centre that you can buy.

Provider

Kent Training and Apprenticeship Service / Kent Adult Education (Community Learning and Skills)
adult.education@kent.gov.uk
0845 606 5606
http://www.kent.gov.uk/adulted

Address

Head Office
College Road Town: Sittingbourne County:Kent

Learning aims

Title: Non regulated Community Learning provision, Crafts, Creative Arts and Design Qualification: Non regulated Community Learning provision, Crafts, Creative Arts and Design Classification: Arts, Media and Publishing

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