Ref: S3D31360
Improve the quality and appearance of your beads, extend the variety of the beads you can make and explore some new techniques.
You will be shown how to adjust the size of dots, as well as how to place them in a more regular fashion. You will improve cylindrical shapes and explore shaping longer beads, together with using presses to help shape your beads. You will be shown different methods of encasing and gain an understanding of how the glass responds to the heat.
You will be incorporating various elements and techniques, such as floral decorations and complex twisties under encasing, as well as the possibilities of using dichroic glass and metal inclusions. This will lead to a wider range of bead styles opening up as your skills base is widened. You can then choose which additional techniques you wish to pursue from the many further possibilities.
By the end of the course, you will have gained confidence in your ability to make beads of a more consistent nature, explored new techniques and made many different beads to use in your own unique jewellery.
Techniques covered:
• Dots – even placement, even size
• Floral decorations using dots
• Improving encasing skills
• Encasing larger beads
• Stringers as a tool
• Cylinders – improving ends and shape
• Tips and tricks for stringer designs (optional)
• Twisted stringers, three or more colours, latticini (optional)
• Metal inclusions (optional)
• Using dichroic glass (optional)
• Using murrini (optional)
• Using press tools (optional)
• Hollow beads (optional)
There will also be time for any other items requested by individual students, and time to pursue your own ideas.
Arrival Day - this is the first date listed above
Courses start early evening. Residential students to arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm.
6.45pm: Welcome, followed by dinner (included).
8 - 9pm: First teaching session, attendance is essential.
Daily timetable
Classes 9.15 - 5pm, lunch is included.
From 6.30pm: Dinner (included for residential students).
Evening working - students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with their tutor's permission and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed.
Last day
Classes 9.15am - 3pm, lunch is included.
Residential students are to vacate their rooms by 10am please.
(This timetable is for courses of more than one day in length. The tutor may make slight variations)
Sarah started making glass beads in 2002 and teaching beadmaking
in 2006. She sells at bead and art fairs, is a City and Guilds
qualified teacher and four times judge of the British Bead
Awards.
She is a member of the Surrey Guild of Craftsmen (where she sells
her work), Glass Beadmakers UK and the International Society of
Glass Beadmakers.
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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