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<p fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;">Take your silver clay jewellery to the next level with this immersive course. Work one to one live online with Rachel to develop more advanced techniques and refine your finishing processes. This course is perfect for those that have already done a full day course in silver clay and want to improve the quality and complexity of their work or develop into a small business.</p><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">During the course you can:</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- refine / revisit techniques such as rolled, cut, textured &amp; layered pieces, moulded pieces, finishing techniques</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- patina effects with liver of sulphur</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- setting Cubic Zirconia stones</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- layered paste nature forms</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- filigree</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">(- round profile ring if time allows)</div><p fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;">The materials and tools required for the intermediate skills are included in the kit as well as all the video tutorials that you will need. Please allow 7-10 days for your kit to arrive.</p><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">As this is the intermediate course it is assumed that you already have the follow kit:</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- blow torch</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- heat mat</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- goggles</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- silicon moulding compound</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- rolling pin</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- cards or thicknessers</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- wet and dry papers</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- polishing papers</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- textures</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- cutters</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- findings</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- pliers</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- brush</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- drill bits / hole cutters</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- olive oil / non stick medium</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- method for drying clay</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- brass / stainless steel brush</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">- (a kiln is required if you wish to do filigree work)</div><div fr-original-style=" color: rgb(10, 28, 46);" style="color: rgb(10, 28, 46); box-sizing: border-box;">You also need a device with a large enough screen to view the tutorials and the ability to play sound.</div>

Rachel Ellen

Bring your jewellery making to the next level with our Silver Clay Workshop! You can learn how to set stones in silver clay, as well as how to create filigree and patina your pieces.

You've been playing with silver clay for a while now, and you're feeling confident in your current skills. You have a vision in your head of what you want to create, but you don't know how to make it come to life. This is a great opportunity for intermediate jewellery makers who want to take their skills to the next level—or for those who are just starting out and want some guidance from an expert. 

Intermediate Silver Clay Jewellery Workshop Learn at Home in Your Own Time


General Admission

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130);" style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130); box-sizing: border-box;">Learning from home at your own pace, in your own time.</span></strong></p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">This course will teach you how to make 15 different ring buttons using a variety of techniques.</p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">Ring buttons have a long history - it is believed that the first ring buttons in England were made in the Dorset region around 1720. However, other European countries also have traditions of ring buttons - called Zwirnknopf/e (literally "thread button"). This course will show you how to make buttons using both the Dorset and zwirnknopf techniques. The buttons featured range from traditional designs to modern variations.</p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">This is a great introductory course for complete beginners, and an equally good refresher course for anyone who has tried thread button making in any form in the past. Each button instruction is by way of a video - shot from above, enabling you to see what is happening. Gina explains the process, and you can start and stop the videos as you require. The button modules are sequential, with a few more challenging designs to test your skills.</p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">There are also&nbsp;9 exercises - ideas for you to try once the&nbsp;initial buttons are successfully created. There are no direct instructions here, rather suggestions to encourage your creativity, just as if you were in a workshop with Gina.</p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">You will also receive access to a closed Facebook group where you can share images of your work, ask questions, or just say hello to other students.</p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">As a bonus, all students of this course will also receive free access to an additional course - Finishing Your Buttons.</em>

</p><p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130);" style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130); box-sizing: border-box;">Materials &amp; tools required:</span></strong>
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<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">The following tools and materials have been used on the course. You may of course choose a differently sized button mould or thread, but in order to follow the instructions as shown, you may find it easier to use the same materials.</p>
<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">A Materials pack - including threads, moulds, needles, fabric and beeswax has been put together and is available in our online shop - <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/dorset-other-ring-buttons-course-materials-pack" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Dorset &amp; Other Ring Buttons Course Materials Pack</a>.</p>
<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">You can use your one-time student discount code (which you will find in the tools &amp; materials section when you enroll) at the shop checkout for a 20% discount*</p>
<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">Materials:</p>
<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/ring-button-moulds-no-32-19mm-brass-x-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Ring Button Moulds No 32 (19mm) - at least&nbsp;3</a></li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/ring-button-moulds-no-39-24mm-silver-tone-zinc-alloy-x-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Ring Button Moulds No 39 (24mm) - at least 4</a></li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/ring-button-moulds-no-70-27mm-acrylic-x-6-flat-edge" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Ring Button Moulds No 70 (27mm) - at least 3</a></li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/ring-button-moulds-no-103-18mm-aluminium-x-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Ring Button Moulds No 103 (18mm) - at least 2</a></li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/ring-button-moulds-no-105-30mm-aluminium-x-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Ring Button Moulds No 105 (30mm) - at least 3</a></li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/threads/presencia-threads/finca-no-8-perle" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Cotton Perle Thread No 8 - at least 4 colours</a></li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cotton / linen fabric</li></ul>
<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">Tools:</p>
<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Scissors</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beeswax</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tapestry needle</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sharp needle</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pencil/chalk</li></ul>
<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">Optional Tools:</p>
<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/circle-gauge-set---new-updated-design" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Circle Gauge&nbsp;Set</a></li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/button-makers-third-hand-tool-tin" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Button Maker&#39;s Third Hand &amp; Tool Tin&nbsp;</a></li></ul><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
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<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">A<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">vailable in our online store at www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk</strong></a>&nbsp;</p>
<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 11px;" style="font-size: 11px; box-sizing: border-box;">*Code may only be used once per student&nbsp;</span></em></p>

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Learn how to make beautiful Dorset buttons! This is the perfect course for beginners, teaching you a selection of different ring buttons

Dorset and other Ring Buttons

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" id="isPasted" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130);" style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130); box-sizing: border-box;">Learning from home at your own pace, in your own time.</span></strong>

</p><p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">This course will teach you how to make 11 different thread buttons using a variety of techniques. The buttons chosen give a good foundation for button making, covering different aspects such as changing colours, wrapping and basic weaving.</p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">Gina&rsquo;s Button Making 101 in person workshop covers as many of these buttons as there is time for - but in one day there is not usually the time to cover every one of these, plus the variations suggested here.</p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">This is a great introductory course for complete beginners, and an equally good refresher course for anyone who has tried thread button making in any form in the past.</p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">Each button instruction is by way of a video - shot from above, enabling you to see what is happening. Gina explains the process, and you can start and stop the videos as you require.</p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">There are also 8 exercises - ideas for you to try once the basic buttons are successfully created. There are no direct instructions here, rather suggestions to encourage your creativity, just as if you were in a workshop with Gina.</p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box;">As a bonus, all students of this course will also receive free access to an additional course - Finishing Your Buttons </em>

</p><p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">Tools &amp; Materials</p><p fr-original-style="" id="isPasted" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">The following tools and materials have been used on the course. You may of course choose a differently sized button mould or thread, but in order to follow the instructions as shown, you may find it easier to use the same materials.</p>
<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">A Materials pack - including threads, moulds, needles, stick and beeswax has been put together and is available in the Gina-B Silkworks shop - <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/basic-button-making-course-materials-pack" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Basic Button Making Course Materials Pack</a>.</p>
<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">Enrolled students will receive a one-time voucher code for use in our online shop at <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/" id="isPasted" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;">https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/</a></p>
<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">Materials:</p>
<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/circle-button-moulds-no-3-25mm-mdf-x-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Circle Button Moulds No 3 (25mm) - at least 16</a></li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/ring-button-moulds-no-32-19mm-brass-x-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Ring Button Moulds No 32 (19mm) - at least 8</a></li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/hexagon-button-moulds-no-11-25mm-mdf-x-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Hexagon Button Moulds No 11 (25mm)</a> (optional)</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/threads/presencia-threads/finca-no-8-perle" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Cotton Perle Thread No 8</a> - at least 2 colours</li></ul>
<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">Tools:</p>
<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Scissors</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beeswax</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tapestry needle</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">stick, awl or long pin</li></ul>
<p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;">Optional Tools:</p>
<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/buttons/button-sundries/circle-gauge-set---new-updated-design" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Circle Gauge&nbsp;Set</a> (links to the new design of this tool)</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/buttons/button-sundries/button-makers-third-hand-tool-tin" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Button Maker&#39;s Third Hand &amp; Tool Tin</a>&nbsp;</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/buttons/button-sundries/button-tools---2-hand-turned-wooden-tools" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 0.875em; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Button Tools</a></li></ul>

Learn how to make beautiful buttons! This is the perfect course for beginners, teaching you thread wrapped, Dorset and zwirnknopf buttons. Button making is the perfect take anywhere textile craft

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