Basic Jewelry-Making Course – Jewelry Making for Beginners – 10 Sessions

Jewelry-Making Course with Eilat Adri at the Jewelry-Making Studies Studio
7A Alexander Zeid Street, Tivon

Syllabus: Basic Jewelry-Making Course 1

Classical Professional Jewelry-Making

The foundation for creating all types of jewelry.

Lesson 1: Introduction to the workshop, practicing with tools, jewelry-making concepts, and initial sawing practice.

Lesson 2: Proper sawing, use of the jeweler’s saw, and tradition.

Lesson 3: Filing and sculpting metal—the next stage after sawing.

Lesson 4: Working with metal wires and the functions of different pliers.

Lesson 5: Measuring and creating rings on an anvil from wire and sheet metal. Introduction to measuring tools and precision in workmanship. Creating rings.

Lesson 6: Soldering—proper preparation for soldering, the stages, materials, and method for successful soldering. Creating earrings.

Lesson 7: Hand finishing and mechanical finishing using a rotary motor. Melting 925 silver. Tools for creating a high-quality jewelry finish. Choosing a stone and designing a pendant for the final project.

Lessons 8–10: Final project—creating a stone setting. Choosing a stone, personal design, and creating a pendant using all the tools learned.

Course fee: 3,100 NIS, including all course materials, for 10 sessions.

Once a week—three hours, 16:00–19:00. Currently available on Tuesday afternoons, and 9:00–12:00 on Wednesday mornings.

After the basic course, continue creating consecutively or divide the studies into courses:

• Continue with Basic Jewelry-Making 2 or Advanced Jewelry-Making—developmental exercises in jewelry-making and industrial jewelry-making concepts.
• Create and learn while making jewelry of your choice.
• Join various courses:
  • Lost-wax casting course
  • Advanced jewelry-making
  • Ancient techniques—granulation, repoussé, and chasing
  • The jewelry-making industry
  • Contemporary jewelry