Silver Jewellery Essentials for Beginners & Continuers

Learn to make silver jewellery with our jewellery making short courses in Sydney!

This 8-week Silver Jewellery Course welcomes both beginners and continuing students who are eager to practice and learn new jewellery making skills. Beginners start by learning to cut, texture, and solder silver and base metals to create a pendant and ring, providing a solid foundation for producing more complex pieces in the future. For continuing students, the course offers an opportunity to advance their skills by exploring a range of techniques including design, roller printing, marking, riveting, patinas, metal inlay, and texturing. These techniques will help you create custom pieces and develop your own signature style.

The course begins with a review of basic skills and then progresses through technical demonstrations such as cabochon stone setting, roller printing, marking, and riveting. Students will also receive hands-on guidance in additional techniques like patinas, metal inlay, and texturing, which allow for the production of multi-coloured and patterned pieces. Throughout the course, participants are encouraged to develop their designs, refining their creative concepts and technical abilities.

Overall, this course provides a valuable opportunity for both beginners and continuing students to enhance their skills at the jewellery bench, combining foundational learning with advanced techniques to create beautiful and unique jewellery.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this Silver Jewellery Essentials Course, you should have:

• Developed fundamental jewellery skills
• Learned and practiced more advanced silver working techniques
• Produced several jewellery pieces during class time.

Course content

What will be covered in this Silver Jewellery Essentials Course?

• General introduction for beginners and review of continuers student work
• Technical demonstration: Basic Stone setting
• Introduction to design
• Revision of Roller Printing, Marking and Riveting
• Technical demonstration: Patinas
• Technical demonstration: Metal Inlay
• Students work on their own design

Intended audience

Who is this Silver Jewellery Essentials Course for?

This course is for beginners and continuers - no prior experience is necessary.

Course venue

Rozelle Campus

2A Gordon Street, Rozelle NSW 2039 (corner of Gordon St & Victoria Rd on the grounds of St. Joseph's Church)

Course materials

Materials provided

• Base metal
• All tools and consumables for students to use in class

What to bring to class

• Masks, apron and safety goggles
• Pens, pencils and sketchbook/paper
• Fine point permanent marker
• Your ideas and creativity

Additional information

Please note the following:

• Please purchase your sterling silver piece at our front office or bring your own
• Other silver materials can be purchased from Palloys
• Closed-in shoes required
• Please wear old clothes
• Long hair must be tied back