We’ve changed things a wee bit

Welcome to something a little bit new! We’ve broken up how we teach jewellery making and changed things up a bit. This is one of our Speciality Skills six-week blocks, which focus on the finer points of making jewellery. These sessions have been selected carefully as they match each other nicely and all belong in the same family as one another. Our Speciality Skills Sessions allow you to go at your own pace and choose when you learn.

If this is your first stop on your jewellery journey and you are not familiar with the basics of creating jewellery, then we absolutely insist you take our Introduction to Core Jewellery class before diving into these sessions.

Tell me about it

This is the next steps in our Surface Patterns journey. In our introductory course, we explored how striking, bending, squeezing, melting metal makes it behave and how to [hopefully] control it. In this six week block, we’re looking at adding and taking away! For enamelling and Keum Boo, we use surface + extra materials + heat to create our end goal. However, with etching, it’s all about what we remove and leave behind that creates pattern and texture. There’s very much an element of science with these techniques, too, which makes them fascinating.

Because things now are far more structured, you can now plan ahead and choose when and how you’d like to learn jewellery making. Once you have completed this six week run, you have plenty of choice! You can choose to focus on Core Jewellery Skills of Brooches and Bangles/Bracelets [Necklaces will run parallel with our intro session and Rings runs alongside this one, with both returning in 2026], or return for more Speciality Skills of Casting and Alternative Materials. Or if you fancy just relaxing and playing around at your own pace, we offer Freestyle Sessions.

The details

Three-hour sessions

Every Tuesday, 6pm - 9pm

April 29th to June 3rd

Book Here:https://www.vanillainkthesmiddy.co.uk/classes/further-surface-patterns