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Petal Earrings - saw a simple pair of earrings from scrap silver
13 Lessons
Petal Earrings
Saw a simple pair of earrings from scrap silver
About the Class
The Petals Earrings class is a lovely beginner project for building confidence with sawing, soldering, texturing, and shaping silver.
The earrings feature elegant teardrop shapes with an off-centre petal design pierced from the silver, finished with hammered texture to catch the light beautifully and add extra detail and movement.
This project is especially good if you’d like to improve your sawing and soldering skills, as the pierced shapes give you plenty of opportunity to practise careful cutting and neat finishing while still creating a design that feels elegant and wearable. Along the way, you’ll also explore how texture can completely change the look of a piece, adding sparkle and character to even simple shapes.
The Petals Earrings also feature in the free Colour Your Silver tutorial, where I show you how to use Liver of Sulphur to add a rich dark patina to your silver, perfect for highlighting the hammered texture and bringing out the details of the design.
Petals Earrings class is available as part of the Beginners Jewellery Making course bundle, a series of classes designed to get you confident with all the basic skills needed for all jewellery making.
If you need any extra help as you work your way through the classes do join us over on The Jeweller's Bench Café group over on Facebook - the perfect place to ask for advice and to show off what you've been making.
You will need:
Materials:
Approximately 20mm by 20mm silver sheet 0.5mm to 0.7mm thick, plus 0.8mm sterling silver round wire for earwires.
Equipment: (all the jewellery making kit listed here can be used for many different projects)
* Soldering kit - see here for more details
* Teardrop templates (a wide variety can be found here)
* Texturing hammer
* Steel block and leather cushion (or folded tea towel!)
* Sharpie
* Jeweller's saw and bench peg
* Drill, 0.9mm drill bit and wooden block to drill into (a bow line drill was used in this class)
* Wire cutters and flat nose pliers
* Small mandrel
* Emery paper
* Needle files
An explanation of all the tools and materials that you need is included in the videos, and a downloadable equipment and materials list is available with the class.
The teardrop shapes used in this project make beautifully flattering earrings, but once you've mastered the skills taught here you can make any shape earrings you wish!
40 minutes long, 13 lessons
Course Curriculum
"Brilliant class showing exactly how to make a lovely pair of Sterling Silver earrings, needing only the basic silversmithing techniques. Love it"
Pamela B.
"Clear instructions, Joanne holds your hand through each stage and makes you believe this is achievable. Thank you for another wonderful class."
Jennie G.
"Brilliant as always"
Teresa H.
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!
Legal Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to show safe working practices and to discuss health and safety aspects of jewellery making, but in the end I cannot take responsibility for how the tutorial information is used and how safely you work. Take the effort to set up your work area safely right from the start!
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