Jewellery: stone setting I

City Lit

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In London

£ 309 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This course will introduce you to specialist techniques for making mounts and setting cabochon and cut stones and develop a piece of jewellery that incorporate these stone-set elements. Ideal for those with some jewellery-making experience looking to enhance their work and add to their skill set, or for those who are more experienced an opportunity to set you own stone-setting projects with guidance from our expert tutor.
The course is for jewellers with some experience of rather than complete beginners, introducing you to specialist techniques for making mounts and setting cabochon and cut stones within your pieces.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Make a variety of settings for both cabochon and cut stones
- Make a French collet from wire
- Set round gem stones in claw and bezel settings
- Realise one finished piece of jewellery with a set stone.

City Lit provides most of the basic tools and equipment you will need for jewellery-making, including base metals, chemicals and sundries. However you will need some specific items for this course, such as saw blades, emery paper, two burrs, two to three stones and some silver wire, sheet and tube. The cost of this will be around £15, depending on your choice of stones. We would recommend that you bring your own needle files if possible.
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You are advised that sensible footwear must be worn in the studio

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Subjects

  • Costume Design
  • CAD
  • AutoCAD
  • Tailoring
  • Textile Design
  • Corset making

Course programme

We will look at different mounts for cabochon and cut stones, and how to apply them within a piece of jewellery. We will practise making claw and tube settings for faceted and consider the preparation of the setting prior to setting the stone. Guiding you through the actual setting of a stone and producing a piece of stone-set jewellery to your own design.

You will be taught through demonstrations and shown photographic examples of jewellery to illustrate how the above skills are developed. Support and advice by the tutor will be given throughout the whole course.

Additional information

City Lit offer a wide range of short and year-long courses in Jewellery design and making, from beginners to advanced, and for professional development. These courses, from 17-18 Main Programme might complement what you learned or your outcomes from this course: VV697 Stone Setting 2 VV698 Stone Setting 3 VV431 Engraving Workshop. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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