Teachers

Rebecca Anderson

1.When and how did you start making jewellery?

I have been playing with beads since I was wee – there is a great shop in Edinburgh which had a tiny bead stand and my friends and I always used to buy beads from there and string up simple earrings. My Grandma also got me doing a bit of bead embroidery when I was very young. I started beading in earnest when I moved to Manchester in 2000. Read More…

   

Emily Kersh

1.When and how did you start making jewellery?

I started making Jewellery about 20 years ago, I wanted to live in Ibiza and have my own market stall on the hippy markets, When we opened are family’s first Bead shop, I worked in the shop and got inspired to make my own Jewellery using the beads and findings from the shop and take it over there to sell in Ibiza. Read More…

   

Barbara Matthews

1.When and how did you start making jewellery?

I started on a number of classes about 10 years ago in London going to numerous of millinery workshops at Kensington and Chelsea College, London College of Fashion, Atelier Carnaby Street, & Rose Cory (royal milliner to the late queen mother) Read More…