Category: Jewelry Classes & Workshops
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Class Spotlight – Hinged Bracelets
We have an awesome six week class coming up on Thursday, November 5th for intermediate students: Silver II: Hinged Bracelets, with instructor Brice Garrett. In this class you’ll learn how to fabricate a cuff, bangle or link bracelet in metal, with opportunities to learn new texturization techniques and brush up on your soldering skills. Excitingly, you’ll also learn how to create…
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Class Spotlight: Business For Designers + Jewelry Production Workshops
So you’ve taken a few jewelry making classes, have a fabulous idea for a jewelry collection and have began making samples, but wait! Have you thought about marketing? How about how to set up a business in New York? How to apply for a sales tax certificate, and when to collect it? Running a…
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Technique Spotlight: Granulation
Granulation is the exquisite and richly historic art of covering precious sheet metal in spherules or granules to create beautifully intricate textured metal jewelry. The technique is thought to have its origins in Sumer about 5,000 years ago. In the first millennium B.C. the technique was used by Etruscans living in present-day Italy. Greek craftsmen also employed the…
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Make Multiples!
Molds are used to create everything from dishware, toys, and objects of art. There are a wide variety of molds to reproduce wax, plastic, concrete, metal and more. Whether your work is big or small, or you want to recreate an organic object, learning to create your own molds to make multiples of objects can…
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Sparkling Stones from the Tube Setting Workshop
This past weekend we had a tube setting workshop in the studio. The students learned to measure gemstones and cut seats to create tiny bezels for round faceted gemstones out of thick wall tubing. Take a look at a few pieces from the workshop….Want to add a subtle sparkle to your own work? Check out…
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Wax Carved Pendants
We just finished our last session of Wax Carving I – it’s always incredible to see the progress and growth of everyone’s work in just 6 weeks. Here are a few pendants from our the second project. Take a look at the rings they created in the first project here. Join us for our…
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Rose Cut Workshop
Check out the absolutely STUNNING work from our rose cut workshop this past weekend…. Interested in learning how to set gemstones? Check out our tube setting & flush setting classes coming up.
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25% Discount on Enamel Class
Receive a 25% discount when you register today! Enter ENAMEL25 at checkout or call the studio at 718-388-2190 to register Enameling, the art of fusing glass on metal to create colorful and imaginative designs, is one of the oldest methods used to create decorative metals. Delve in to this exciting technique and learn how to…
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Recent Works from our One Day Intensives
Here are a few incredible pieces made this weekend from our 4-hour ring making class. Check out future ring making classes here.
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Ringing in the New Year with our One Day Intensives
When learning to make jewelry, it’s so fun to be able to wear your own pieces as your learning this new craft. But what’s even more incredible is being able to give someone you love one of your new handmade treasures. Check out these beautiful pieces made in one of our recent one-day ring making…