Jewellery

Course description

Students will learn skills and techniques necessary to create precious metal jewellery. The focus will be on learning and developing practical jewellery making skills. Students will also be encouraged to develop their own creative ideas and will be taught how to translate these ideas into finished, 3D pieces of jewellery. The course will cover basic areas such as metal forming, piercing, soldering, stone setting, jewellery design and CAD.  By the end of the course students will have produced a substantial body of work and have gained confidence and skill to work with precious metals and produce their own individual style of jewellery.Workshop and MetalYou will be working in a well-equipped workshop, with your own individual bench space and access to all the necessary tools and machinery.  Copper and brass will be provided for the students to work with. Copper and brass are inexpensive metals with very similar working properties to precious metals. Working with them will enable students to build up a level of skill and confidence before progressing to silver, if they so desire. Metal Forming Stonesetting: An Introduction Decorative Finishes Design for Jewellers Competition Entry Piercing (sawing out metal) Working with Wire Soldering Non precious Materials Computer Aided Draughting (CAD) for Engineers Understanding Business Skills for Customer Care Marketing: Basic Principles PC Passport: IT Software – Word Processing and Presenting Information

Learning outcome

Further study opportunitiesIf you complete the NC, you may want to then consider moving on to a college or university to progress to HNC, HND or degree level. Depending on the university or college and the course, you could enter in to year 2 of a related course.Career opportunitiesThe NC Jewellery course can be the first step on the ladder to becoming a self-employed jeweller/designer.