Recycle Your Old Jewellery

Course

In London

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

London Metropolitan University exists to transforms lives. We take pride in helping students reach their goals and succeed in their future careers.On this course students will learn and practice the techniques of cuttlefish and sand-casting through recycling their old jewellery and make new exciting pieces out of precious but unworn and unused pieces.

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London
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31 Jewry Street, EC3N 2EY

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now closed

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Subjects

  • IT
  • University
  • Casting

Course programme

London Met invests in you: from our purpose-built newsroom to our state-of-the-art superlab, we aim to create a stimulating and unique learning environment for our students. Our courses have received top marks from the UK's Quality Assurance Agency and many are accredited by a wide range of professional bodies. Our lecturers are leaders in their field: in the latest Research Assessment Exercise, over two-thirds of the University’s research output was judged to be world-leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised.

We go the extra mile with our investment. We do this through our five-star promise, our pledge to connect our students with opportunities to boost their career skills. We put employability at the heart of our curriculum through helping you find placements, work experience and voluntary opportunities across a wide variety of organisations.

Course structure
  • learn how to make a mould in cuttlefish and how to melt and cast precious metal
  • learn and practice how to make a mould with delft clay and how to cast in sand
  • deconstruct existing jewellery and reconstruct it by using either sand or cuttlefish casting
  • melt existing jewellery pieces, cast onto existing pieces, cast into the existing piece
  • refine the pieces made so far and practice more casting
Techniques taught
  • cuttlefish casting
  • sand casting
  • mould making
  • critical thinking about the design process
By the end of the course, students will have
  • learnt about sand and cuttlefish casting. How to melt and cast with precious metal
  • an insight into mould making and be able to practice it.
  • be able to develop their creative thinking and making process through deconstructing and reconstructing
  • a better understanding of H&S aspects of casting with precious metal

Recycle Your Old Jewellery

Price on request