Earring Making Workshop

Beginner
Taster

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Course Overview

Earring Making Workshop

Learn how to make a beautiful pair of silver earrings with semi-precious gemstone bead detail.

Nerissa Parker Jewellery Designer
Class tutor, Nerissa Parker
Primary Tutor / Owner
Level, Beginner
Course type, Taster

Our earring making workshop is a perfect introduction to try working in silver and discover traditional jewellery making techniques.

In this 3 hour class you will make a beautiful pair of silver earrings with a gemstone bead detail ready to wear. To complete the final piece you’ll learn how to form silver, create surface texture and use wire working techniques to enable you to create the bead detail. We teach you how to safely use a range of jewellery making tools including a soldering torch, pliers and create surface texture using texturing hammers.

No prior jewellery making experience is necessary to enrol on this class, complete beginners are welcome!

Our friendly, relaxed taster classes offer a gentle introduction to silver jewellery making, perfect for beginners. If you’re new to jewellery making and unsure about committing to a full-term course, a taster class is a great way to explore working with silver and see if it’s for you.

What will I learn?

  • About forming metal 
  • How to anneal
  • Texturing techniques
  • How to saw
  • About soldering
  • Filing & polishing techniques
  • About wire work

Who is this course for?

This course is suitable for beginners. No previous experience making jewellery is necessary to enrol on this course.

Age Guidance

All students attending classes or workshops at Kingham Jewellery School must be 18 or over unless otherwise stated in the course information.

The minimum age for students attending group bookings is school year 11, 15-16 years of age provided they are accompanied by fee paying adults. We do not offer group bookings for under 18’s unless at least 1 fee paying responsible adult attends the class.

Course materials

All course materials are included in the course fees to make a single pair of silver earrings with a semi-precious gemstone bead detail.

Course FAQs

Where is the course held?

Kingham Jewellery School is based in Kingham in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire. We’re easily accessible from Chipping Norton, Moreton-in-Marsh, Burford, Witney and the wider Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire area. Find us here

Keeping Safe in the Workshop

As a student you are responsible for your own safety in the workshop. The most important things to remember are;

  • Please listen to directions from your tutor to ensure you know how to use all the equipment safely and correctly.
  • Do not operate equipment you do not know how to use.
  • Covered footwear is required and absolutely no high heels.
  • Tie back long hair when using motorised equipment.
  • Please respect others and don’t interrupt students who are soldering, using the drill or any other equipment that could create a safety concern if the operator is distracted.
  • Remember to take all your belongings with you when you leave.
  • Please leave all unnecessary personal items at home.

You will need to bring

  • Your own apron, to protect your clothes.
  • Packed lunches are recommended if your class runs for a full day.

Please do not attend the workshop if

  • You feel unwell.

A more comprehensive guide to workshop safety can be found in our Workshop Guidelines pdf.

Group Booking

Applying solder to a silver hoop
Soldering the silver hoop
Quenching a silver hoop
Creating the hammered texture to the silver hoop
Melting silver wire to make a ball head pin
Melting silver wire to make a ball head pin
Opening a silver jump ring with pliers
Soldering a jump ring to silver wire
Sawing through the silver earring hoop
Threading the earring hook onto the silver hoop
Closing the silver earring hoop with pliers
Soldering the silver earring hoop closed
Adding an aquamarine semi precious bead to the silver earring
Wire wrapping the ball head pin to secure semi precious bead

Group booking options are available for this course. Group pricing starts at £285 excluding materials for a group of 3 students.

Submit a group booking enquiry or head over to our Group Booking page for more details.

Although this course isn’t currently timetabled it is still available as a group booking.

Group Booking Enquiry

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Please confirm all members of your group meet the required age limit.

The minimum age for students attending group bookings is school year 11, 15-16 years of age provided they are accompanied by fee paying adults. We do not offer group bookings for under 18’s unless at least 1 fee paying responsible adult attends the class.

Group bookings are for a maximum of 8 students. Don’t know your group size yet? Select Unsure.

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