LR Silver Jewellery

Want to do something special for your child's party? How about making solid silver necklaces? During this simple workshop the children will use silver clay to make a necklace with 2 small charms on, with texture and an initial stamped in the back. Once fired the necklaces are 99.9% silver. While the charms are firing, I will provide a box template for them to colour in so they have a small gift box to keep their jewellery in. The clay will be fired in a kiln on site, so there...

Once you have done a beginners course, or had a chance to play with some silver clay yourself, you might want to learn some more advanced techniques. This full day course will give you an opportunity to make a decorated ring from silver clay. What will you learn? There are a few choices on this course, you can make a ring with a glass stone, with a silver clay decoration on or with some texture or carving around it. You will learn how to size it and work out shrinkage...

Silver clay is a fairly new medium for jewellery making where the silver is in dust form mixed with a binder to make clay. Once the piece is made, it is fired, the binder burns off and the silver sinters together to make a solid silver (99.9% silver) piece. At Talton Mill I have a number of courses planned for 2020 including stone setting in silver clay, making a ring from silver clay and making a locket style bead from silver clay. Plus there is a Christmas course planned where...