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WEEKEND WORKSHOPS
** Register 1 week in advance to avoid cancellation due to lack of enrollment**
Beyond the Bezel and into Tube Setting
Saturday April 11 10:00 - 4:00
(Elizabeth Tokoly)
Stones are a great way to add color and dimension to your work. This workshop will introduce tube setting. Tube setting is great for stacking rings, simple studs and accent stones. In this workshop you will have choice to create a set of stacking rings, stud earrings or pendant featuring tube setting.
​Skill Level: Advanced beginner
Tuition: 160.
Lab Fee: 15.
Materials: 35.
Beginning Loop-in-Loop Chain Making
Sun 4/19 10:00 - 4:00
(Raychel Wengenroth)
Byzantine style Etruscan chains date back to antiquity and are still made by hand to this day. Students will learn the basics of taking fine silver wire and wrapping it around a dowel to make a coil, cutting it into individual links that are fused closed using a torch, shaping and then assembling a variety of different chains. We will focus on learning the various “stitches” allowing students to continue their studies at home. This technique requires very minimal equipment and the results are professional quality chains that impress everyone and are truly a labor of love. Caution: Extremely addictive!
Skill level: No experience necessary, Good eyesight is!
Tuition: 125.
Lab Fee: 15.
***Important Materials Notice*** Students need to purchase their own *20 gauge Fine Silver Wire - 20 feet* (approximately 125. depending on market price at time of shipment)