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Jewellery workshop class

Workshops 2025

Repairs for Jewellery and Fabrication of Findings

Instructor: Gaëtan Côté

Workshop to be given in French

Theory: How to correctly and efficiently do repairs to jewellery

Introduction : The importance of being well prepared

  • Cleaning, Measurement / Size, Inspection of the part

  • Prepare a written document; condition of the part before repair, description of the metal, description of the stones, etc.,

  • Subcontractors

  • Submit a quote to the customer (established price and delivery date)

  • Customer approval and signature

  • Workshop on Saturday - May 3rd, 2025

  • 10am to 5 pm - One Hour break for Lunch

  • Cost for materials: $30.00

  • Prerequisite: Module 3 or the equivalent amount of training

Maximum 6 students per class

Work will be carried out on:

Chains: Proper assembly and execution

Square, Curb, Rolo and Ball chains

Rings: Resizing of rings

Preparation and installation of a U Gard

Preparation and installation of balls

Setting up and carrying out an underwater resizing

Prongs:

Retipping (technique to repair a prong tip)

Earrings:

Overview of the templates used to form (posts, open hooks and closed hooks)

Forming of open and closed hooks

Reconstruct a post for a "huggie" type earring

Make posts for earrings (finish and notch)

Butterfly adjustment according to shaft size

Drawing and Design for Jewellery

Instructor: Gustavo Estrada

3 Hour Introductory workshop: Gain an understanding of how to present your jewellery ideas as drawings, so that your teachers and clients can better understand your design concepts.

Discover how to turn your concepts into compelling visuals. Enhance your design communication skills—register today to make your jewellery ideas more impactful!.

Bilingual

Saturday, May 10, 2025

1:00 to 4:00pm

3 hour workshop - materials provided

$30.00 ( tax not included )

Maximum 6 students per class

To further explore drawing for jewellery sign up for our Drawing and Design class with Gustavo Estrada, coming this July, 2025

Introduction to working with wax

Maximum 8 students per class

Working in wax is a fun way to create 3 dimensional jewellery. It can be done simply at home with a few tools unlike traditional metal working techniques that are more easily done in a studio.

Day 1: Carving a Ring in Wax

Day 2: Take your ring to be cast and finish it in metal ( There will be an additional cost for the casting and the silver and this will be paid to the casters where you have the ring cast. )

Instructor: Andrew Floyd

  • Bilingual

  • Monday Evening, July 7, Part 1

  • Monday Evening, July 14, Part 2

  • Time: 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm

  • 2 classes of 4 hours each

  • $140.00 (taxes not included)

  • Wax materials $5.00 (taxes not included)

  • $145.00 Total for the workshop (taxes not included)

Create a simple wax ring that you will take to be cast in metal. Learn to clean and polish your metal ring in part 2.

Jewellery Making Introduction Workshop

Instructor: Andrew Floyd

Maximum 10 students per class

PART 1: 3 hour long workshop for beginners on the basics of jewellery making. Make your own piece of jewellery! Come learn the basics (sawing and filing) and leave with your first piece of jewellery.

PART 2: 4 hour long workshop for beginners. Continue to learn the basics of jewellery making. Make your first sterling silver ring! New skills such as soldering and polishing will be at the forefront, the skills that you have already acquired from part 1 will be essential.

  • Bilingual class

  • Monday Evening, July 21, Part 1

  • 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

  • Monday Evening, July 28, Part 2

  • 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm

  • $165.00 ( taxes not included )

  • All materials required ( Brass and Silver, saw blades and solder) are included in this price

3D Printed Materials Exploration Workshop

Instructor: Norsola Johnson

The majority of the workshop will be spent designing, printing and working out ways to create pieces using 3D printed elements.

3D printing is commonly used in the industry as a time and money saving production method. However the uncast prints themselves (either resin or nylon, depending of the type of printer) can be used as components in their own right.

Though it is a relatively niche material, it offers many new possibilities in art jewellery.

Bring your own laptop - Prerequiste: students should be able to create their own designs in the software of their choice (Rhino, Blender, ZBrush, Maya…)

The workshop will not be a course on 3D modelling, so students must be autonomous and comfortable with it.

Students will be encouraged to come with designs already created on their computers. The teacher will also have some to offer in the class.

  • Bilingual

    Saturday July 12 and Saturday July 19, 2025

  • 10:00 am to 5:00 pm (one hour lunch break)

  • $180.00 ( tax not included )

  • Materials are not included. Materials may be purchased from the instructor (tools provided).

Maximum 6 students per class

Material to be covered in the course:

COLOUR: Dyes for resins and how to use them. Demo on how to mix dye into resins, and adjustments that may need to be made on print settings.

One of the printers will have dyed resin (colour to be determined) and the other will be loaded with standard grey resin (to paint afterwards, if desired)

Painting resins: demo of possibilities for adding colour to an already cured resin piece.

FINISHING: Demo on best practices for shaping/filing and polishing resin pieces.

SAFETY: In theory, cured resins are inert and should be fine for short term wear, but for longer term, it is safer to coat or varnish the pieces. A good rule of thumb is to coat anything that will be in direct contact with skin for an extended period of time.