Jewellery Making for Beginners - West Bridgford Library - Adult Learning

• Date: 4 - 18 May 2024
• Sessions: Saturdays: 10am - 12pm
• No. sessions: 3
• Venue: West Bridgford Library, Nottingham
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 12
• Cost: FREE - £18

Learn how to create your own beaded jewellery designs, including bracelets, necklaces and earrings.

In this 3 week beginners jewellery making course you will learn different techniques each week, whilst creating new pieces of jewellery. In week one we cover both elastic bracelets and bracelets with a clasp. Week two we will create strung beaded necklaces and bead earrings in week three.

By the end of the course, you will:

• Have created a variety of bracelets, necklaces and earrings
• Learn how to identify and use jewellery tools
• Learn how to securely finish beaded necklace and bracelets using different end findings
• Learn how to use jump rings to attach findings
• Learn how to create wrapped loops
• Increase creative confidence
• Improve hand/eye coordination

Please bring:

• Selection of beads
• Beading Wire (often called by the brand names Beadalon or Tiger Tail)
• Jewellery Elastic (0.7mm or 0.8mm diameter)
• Findings in your choice of plating
• Clasps
• Necklace Ends (sometimes called Callottes or Bead Tips)
• 5mm or 6mm Jump Rings
• Earrings (Fishhook or any style including clip-on with a loop at the bottom)
• Headpins
• Eyepins
• Crimp Beads (or size 2 crimp tubes)
• Tools:
• Set of Jewellery Pliers (including Round Nose Pliers, Cutters and at least one pair of Chain Nose Pliers, two pairs are helpful)
• Bead mat or Tray

Some suggested places to get these from are:

• The Range
• Hobbycraft
• Boyes
• The Bead Shop Nottingham
• Amazon

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course please visit our webpage for furtherinformation https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

Check the FAQs page, or get in touch:

• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: [email protected]

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

West Bridgford Library, Bridgford Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom