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MAKE-DAY: Wooden Jewellery with Silver Inlay and Pearls [JUN]
Date: Friday 06 June, 2025
Start Time: 10am
End Time: 4.30pm
Venue: FORGE
This workshop explores how to use wood to create contemporary jewellery designs. You will learn how to decorate wood with silver pique dots and pearls, creating unique jewellery with your own decorative design. You will also discover techniques to incorporate wood into your work using standard jewellery hand tools, without requiring extensive specialised equipment. Guidance on sustainability and material sourcing, as well as innovative uses of wood by designers, will also be covered. Handouts will be provided, and you will have the opportunity to purchase Sarah’s book, Creating Jewellery in Wood.
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What will I make?
You will create either two wooden pendants or a pair of earrings, decorated with silver pique dots and pearls to your own design. These intricate details will showcase the techniques you’ll learn during the workshop, resulting in stunning, personalised creations.
What will happen on the day?
The day will begin with an introduction to working with wood in jewellery design, including a look at the tools and techniques required. You’ll learn how to adapt standard jewellery hand tools for use with wood, making this approach accessible even if you don’t have a fully equipped workshop. The instructor will demonstrate the process of inlaying silver pique dots into wood, guiding you step by step so you can practice this method on your own pieces.
In the next stage, you will explore techniques for attaching pearls to wood, adding an elegant touch to your designs. Alongside this hands-on work, there will be discussions on sustainability, covering how to source wood responsibly and choose materials that align with your values. You’ll explore a range of cold connection techniques to create completed jewellery pieces, as well as gain knowledge about different types of wood and their suitability for various designs.
Throughout the workshop, you’ll receive individual guidance to develop your own jewellery designs. By the end of the day, you’ll leave with completed pendants or other jewellery pieces that reflect your personal style and newly acquired skills. To support your learning, you’ll receive handouts summarising the techniques covered and additional resources for further exploration. There will also be an opportunity to purchase Sarah’s book, Creating Jewellery in Wood, as a valuable reference for future projects.
What skills do I need?
All levels Workshops that are designed to be flexible and accommodate all skill levels.
What should I bring?
- Reading glasses (if you need them!)
- Paper/sketchbook and pencil
- Money if want to buy extra wood sliced to manageable size
What should I wear?
Clothes: Casual and not too precious as they may get a bit dusty or damaged. Avoid long, loose fitting sleeves and anything that might catch or get caught whilst you are working.
Shoes: Casual flat shoes and no open toed sandals in case you drop a hammer or something hot on them!
Hair: Tie long hair back.
Who is my instructor?
Sarah King is an established jeweller specialising in mixing precious and non-precious materials in jewellery and using them to make sculptural and tactile pieces. She has sold her work through department stores such at Liberty and Barneys, New York and the art jewellery gallery Jewellers' Werk Galerie in Washington DC. Since 2000 she has been experimenting with cast bioresin and these works are in public and private collections (including Crafts Council and the British Council), and has worked on many books on contemporary jewellery. She has won the Association of Contemporary Jewellery Prize and several Goldsmiths' Craftmanship and Design Awards.
She has taught specialist classes in plastics, wood and silver jewellery at Central St Martins, Morley College and West Dean for over 15 years and in 2019 published her first book 'Creating Jewellery in Wood'. For 16 years she was based in the innovative makers hub Cockpit Arts in London and now lives and works in Lewes, East Sussex.
How do I get there?
See contact page for details on public transport and parking.
£145.00