Fashion Jewellery II

Course details

Professional thread and wire techniques have long been used to create a broad range of jewellery by fine jewellers; high value cultured pearls, for example are assembled using specially developed traditional techniques and materials. In today’s burgeoning market for fashion jewellery many of these established techniques have been supplanted by craft methods used for temporary designs or costume jewellery.

The JDMIS prides itself in providing established skills, expert advice on production, speed, quality and comprehensive information about material choices and qualities to ensure its designers produce superior, lasting jewellery regardless of the value of the component materials designers choose.

What will I learn?

• Advanced Wirework techniques and combinations extend your creative possibilities. Start incorporating chain into wirework designs to create elegantly long or fashionably short necklaces with quality production and speed. Efficient use of gold and silver chain ensures designs remain cost-effective.
• Wire Component Creation, using half-hard and soft wires make components including clasps, earring hooks, connectors, separators & more. Learn construction techniques for safety, appearance and durability.
• Wire Coiling, a technique used both in history as well as many contemporary designs. Use these skills to create linked coil necklaces, bracelets and accessories.
• Jigs for Accurate Repeatable Wire Parts. Learn how to use wire jigs to make precise wire shapes that can be used as bacelet parts, clasps, earring hooks and more. Experiment with Celtic, Egyptian, Aztec and modern geometric patterns.
• Advanced knotting designs help you understand how to best combine very different materials, when it is suitable to perform partial knotting, and how to produce long, elegant opera- and satoir-length necklaces with imperceptible joins.
• Wire wrapping techniques can accent or cage unusual materials in soft wire to create distinctive design opportunities. Secure wrapping techniques for pieces with and without holes allow creative expression using many unique objects. Innovative finishing variations add to the singularity of these designs.
• Advanced Weaving techniques extend existing flat and fancy designs by producing fast and more challenging three dimensional creations. These can be used not only for jewellery, but fashion accessories for handbags, cell phones & much more.