Silver Jewellery Making Course: Intermediate

What you'll learn

Develop your silver jewellery skills with our jewellery making short courses in Sydney!

Learn to create more advanced silver jewellery pieces using a range of tools, techniques and finishes. It is the perfect follow-on from the beginner's course and will enable you to create custom pieces and develop your own signature style.

This course provides the opportunity for students to work on a project of their choice under the close guidance of an experienced tutor.

You'll get a refresher of the basic skills (depending on student needs) and will practice new techniques on copper before applying them to silver.

If you want to learn intermediate silver jewellery techniques in Sydney, this is the course for you.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this silver jewellery course, you should have:

• Learned and practiced more advanced silver working techniques
• Produced several items of silver jewellery during class 

You will design and make

• A number of silver jewellery items (Dependent upon time, skill level and complexity of student's design)

Course content

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

Techniques covered

• Basic stone setting
• Design 
• Roller printing
• Marking
• Riveting
• Basic link making
• Metal inlay
• Texturing

Intended audience

Who is this silver jewellery course for?

This course is for experienced students who have completed Silver Jewellery Making Course: Beginners 101 or equivalent.

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

Class materials 

• Base metal and tools are provided
• A small variety of sterling silver sheets can be purchased in the front office

What to bring to class

• Pens and pencils
• Sketch book/paper
• Fine point permanent marker
• Your own gemstone or choose from our range
• Samples of any previous work so that the tutor can assess your skill level

Additional information

Please note the following:

• Closed-in shoes required
• Please wear old clothes
• Long hair must be tied back

Lunch

For Classes running all day, a 30-minute lunch break will take place halfway through the class. Students are encouraged to bring their own lunch, alternatively, there are cafes and takeaway restaurants nearby.