How to set up your Rolling Mill for texturing
learn how to create beautiful embossed patterns on your silver
About the Tutorial
A rolling mill is one of the most versatile tools you can have on your jewellery bench - and I love mine! Traditionally a mill is used to form new sheet and wire, but it's also a great way of adding beautiful textures to your jewellery designs.
Whether you're using texture sheets, lace, leaves or other found materials, a little time spent learning how to set it up correctly will help you achieve beautifully consistent results. In this free tutorial, I'll show you two different methods for setting up your rolling mill for texturing metal, helping you find the approach that works best for you. I'll also share why I always recommend practising with different gauges and widths of copper before working with silver, and how keeping simple notes of your best settings can save you time and frustration in future.
To help you get started, the tutorial includes two downloadable resources: the same instruction sheet that I include with all of my texture sheet orders, and a handy record-keeping table where you can note your own successful rolling mill settings as you experiment.
This tutorial is just one in a collection of free tutorials and downloads. You can enrol on each one individually or enrol on the whole bundle so that you don't miss out on new classes!
In particular you will find the class on how the width of your metal affects the texturing useful as I mention it in this class - you can find that here.
Once you've set up your rolling mill...
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Joanne Tinley
Tutor and Founder of The Jeweller's Bench
The Jeweller's Bench is run by Joanne Tinley. She has been making her own jewellery for as long as she can remember and left her first career as a school teacher to set up business as a jewellery designer and tutor nearly 20 years ago. She is
self-taught and like many people started with wire and beads. Learning how to solder, however, opened up a whole new world of jewellery making, one that she is keen to share!
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