Making jewellery is more than enjoyable, it’s stimulating and creative. You can take lots of beads, crystals and combine them into a beautiful piece of jewellery. It’s unique, it’s hand-made, it’s special because you’ve made it. 

Beading can be incredibly be relaxing. Browsing through the range of beads available, selecting tones and colours, sizes and textures, then laying them out to form patterns, seeing which designs work and which don’t. Threading them into simple strings or complex motifs – mixing and matching to build up the complete and unique design. 

Starting with simple designs, you will soon feel the urge to push the boundary, to try something more complex, knowing that if you don’t like the end result you can disassemble it and make the parts into another piece, learning all the while about what looks good and what doesn’t. 

When you enjoy making jewellery it’s only natural to want to share our designs, and they can make super personal gifts for family and friends. You might want to take classes and learn new skills. You also might want to share your skills in running workshops or classes of our own, or just finding out that selling your creations to others gives you a huge buzz. To acheive all this why not come to our jewellery making classes and start a new hobby!

Classes are categorised as Beginners, Intermediate, and Advanced, so you can pick the level that suits you best, you can also browse and book for classes by your favourite tutor, or check out the calendar to see what’s available when you want to come to a class.

Group bookings are welcome: get together with friends and come and try a new skill, or include a jewellery making class as part of your birthday or hen party celebration. Children’s classes can be arranged too, it’s a great way to keep the kids occupied and entertained, and they will love being able to wear the jewellery they have made themselves.

The new website contains profiles of our teachers and a handy Venue Location page with directions and a map so you can find us easily, whilst the News section also includes an archive of recent classes.

Each month will see the addition of new classes, so why not sign up for our free email newsletter and we’ll keep you up to date with all our new classes and activities.

In this Beginners Jewellery Workshop was split into two 2 hour classes with a lunch break. In the first half of the class the students learnt the basics, of understanding the tools and Jewellery components, such as crimps, end fastenings and beading wire, you will make a pair of earrings and a floating style necklace.

In the second half a more advanced technique was covered, which gave the students a much more  jewellery making possibilities.  They also covered working with jump rings – another essential jewellery making technique.

Comments:

Helen,

‘Excellent! Really clear explanations and lots of recapping when we were strugling’

Patsie,

‘Super patient teacher. Good selection of beads etc, and picked up new skills!’

Kia,

‘Fantastic class! Felt Very welcome and really good teaching style.’

Here’s a few comments:

“Attended the fascinator course on Saturday and thoroughly enjoyed it! Can’t wait to attend the next class as it’s so good to do something different. Thanks! x”

by Celine Coop

“Just done the facinator class. Febulous. Took home my two facinators and immediately my neice wants me to make her one for a wedding she’s going to!! Thank you Barbara!”

by Andrea Hindle

In this Vintaj class everyone had the opportunity to use our fantastic range of Natural Brass jewellery making products; each piece of brass being hand finished to achieve Vintaj’s trademark antique glow fitting in with the retro style that is so popular at the moment.

The students were working with metal blanks to create unique pieces of jewellery and covering such techniques as letter stamping, riveting, hole punching, basic resining and more.