JEWELLERY MAKING CLASS - PENTALPHA PENDANT AND EARRING SET AND BRIOLETTE FLOWER
11TH MAY 2024 AT 10.00 - 15.00 FORTY HALL, FORTY HILL, EN2 9HA
To book please visit the Forty Hall website, link at the top of the page.
Option 1 - Includes Materials
Option 2 - Includes Tools and Materials
Join award winning jewellery designer, Abby Hook in the workshop designed for the complete Jewellery novice. You will start with the Pentalpha, making a pendant and a matching pair of earrings. Then you will move onto make a Briolette flower pendant, where you will develop the wrapping skills just learnt to form a flower enhanced with a wire weave detail. Choose between copper or silver - plated wire for your jewellery. There will be a small choice of gemstone beads to choose from on the day. You can take your Pentalpha set (pendant and earrings) and a Briolette flower pendant home with you!
Abby Hook is an internationally acclaimed, award winning designer and creator of unique wire jewellery and author of a bestselling, instructional wire jewellery book. She has been making jewellery since she was a child and specialising in wirework for 20 years, her business is now in its fifteenth year. You can find her online at www.abbyhook.co.uk
Pentalpha pendant and earring set:
This simple yet effective design is quick to make and very versatile. The wire wrapping creates a pentagram star in the center of the beads.
Learn to;
* Create a wire motif
* Form a bail
* Create a secure wrapped loop
* Make your own earwires
Briolette flower pendant:
This lesson teaches you how to connect Briolettes together to form a flower and embellish it with a weave to create an intricate detail and also strengthen the form. The flowers can be used as pendants, earrings or as an embellishment in a more complex design.