DIPLOMA COURSE
Practical Jewellery Foundation Diploma
Suitable for Jewellery Beginners or Designers
-
Practical Bench Skills
-
Taught by an experienced trade professional
-
Flexible Scheduling
-
Fine Jewellery Skills training with additional specialist techniques as optional extra
Comprehensive, professional level training in jewellery Bench Skills through personalised 1:1 tuition and project-led learning.
What you get
We have developed a training pathway with you in mind.
You will develop essential hand making skills for fine jewellery through a series of increasingly complex personal jewellery manufacturing projects.
Techniques are introduced as required by each project, allowing you to develop your practical abilities in direct response to your own designs, interests and developing design ethos.
-
Total of 72 Hours private 1:1 tuition
-
Project led
-
Guided tuition
Our course includes these fine jewellery practical skills as standard as you work in ever more complex projects of your own design.
Standard Training Content
-
Cutting, Drilling & Saw Piercing – On going allow 6 Hours
-
Filing and shaping - On going allow 6 Hours
-
Preparing and Soldering Metal Components- On going allow 10 Hours
-
Mount Making - Minimum 3 days (18 Hours)
-
Hinges Catches and Rivets – 1 Day (6 Hours)
-
Stonesetting – 3 Days (18 Hours)
-
Finishing and Polishing – On going allow 4 hours
-
Design Guidance - Part of all tuition content – Allow 4 Hours
-
Workshop Safety - Part of ongoing tuition content - Allow 2 Hours
There are three tutors involved in the standard practical jewellery Foundation, all of whom bring specialist skills and who are Jewellery Industry professionals rather than lecturers.
Course Tutors
Course Aim
Our Practical Jewellery Foundation course provides comprehensive, professional-level training in jewellery Bench skills through personalised 1:1 tuition and project-led learning.
-
Rather than following a fixed programme of set practical exercises, you will develop their skills through a series of increasingly complex personal jewellery projects.
-
Techniques and processes are introduced as required by each project, allowing you to develop their practical abilities in direct response to their own designs, interests and developing design ethos.
-
To ensure the most important aspects of practical Jewellery Making are included there are particular areas that we recommend you do ensure you undertake techniques such as mount making and stonesetting, which is why we include these in the hours total for tuition.
Duration
-
1-Day practical course every 3-4 weeks to suit
-
One-to-one tuition as standard.
This is the equivalent of 12 Days or 72 hours of fine jewellery techniques tuition over a year, see Fine Jewellery Techniques 1-8 below for standard content.
Our Practical Jewellery Foundation course provides comprehensive, professional-level training in jewellery Bench skills through personalised 1:1 tuition and project-led learning.
Rather than following a fixed programme of set practical exercises, you will develop their skills through a series of increasingly complex personal jewellery projects. Techniques and processes are introduced as required by each project, allowing you to develop their practical abilities in direct response to their own designs, interests and developing design ethos.
To ensure the most important aspects of practical Jewellery Making are included there are particular areas that we recommend you do ensure you undertake techniques such as mount making and stonesetting, which is why we include these in the hours total for tuition.
Tailor It!
In addition we recommend you review our Developmental Design Technique courses.
These are optional extras, and undertaking any of these depends on your own design pathway and the direction of professional development you might like to choose.
See Developmental Design Techniques below.
-
This is a separate booking to the practical jewellery foundation.
Other Courses
You may like to add on individual courses from our Jewellery Design Diploma if you feel these would help your progression. Ask for a quote.
You may like to continue a CAD Rhino for Jewellery Design Diploma if you have taken the CAD TASTER course listed above. Ask for a quote.
Tuition Schedule
When you book we arrange a start date with your tutor Katherine and you can arrange each session after that directly with her.
For Mount making and Stonesetting your tuition is with other specialist tutors and we can schedule your course days for this type of tuition in advance and about 30 hours into your tuition.
We do this to ensure you remain focused on your training and make sure you do cover stonesetting and mounting which are very important.
-
Stonesetting tuition days must take place on a Sunday only
-
Mount Making days must take place on a Tuesday or Thursday only
Course Pricing
Heading 3
Pricing
-
Total number of practical tuition hours is 72
-
Course fee Practical Jewellery Foundation Course £4300 GBP
-
Private 1-1 Tuition
Optional Developmental Design Techniques
Bench Skills
Learning new techniques to help you expand your design aspirations.
Support with technical issues and fabrication dilemmas as you grow and develop your designs.
You may add these techniques to the standard content at any time, they are not part of your 72 course tuition hours.
-
To be booked individually if required.
Enamelling | 1:1 Private Tuition
-
Duration: 2 Days
-
Beginner and either Cloisonne or Champleve styles
-
Tutor: A professional Jewellery Enamelling specialist
Microsetting | 1:1 Private Tuition
-
Duration: 2 Days
-
Includes castings and CZ for practise
-
Tutor: A professional Trade Setter
Wax Carving | 1:1 Private Tuition
-
Duration: 2 Day Masterclass
-
Includes Wax for practise
-
Tutor: Industry Specialist