Filigree and Fiber Bracelet Sunday 6:30 - 9:30 $80 Jen Cushman
Student Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Type of Workshop: Project
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Get the look of rustic romance with this filigree and fiber bracelet. Delicate chocolate brass filigree provides a lovely foundation in which to add your own metal-stamped sentiment saying that is properly attached with cold-connection nuts and screws. Techniques include metal stamping into sheet metal, attachment, forming the filigree into a cuff, adding color and style with frayed ribbons, altered crystals, briolette-wrapped beads, wirewrapping and a handmade clasp.
Materials fee of $12 payable to Instructor at class time includes:
- filigree cuff
- base metal sheet for metal stamp sayings
- fibers
- 18-gauge, 20-gauge and 22-gauge wire
- jump rings
- patina solution
- beads
- Also includes use of instructors tools such as metal stamps, drill, drill bits, bracelet mandrels, etc.
Students should bring:
- round nose jewelry pliers
- chain nose or flat nose jewelry pliers
- wire cutters
- small steel bench block or anvil
- ball peen hammer
- 1 piece of extra fine steel wool
- center punch
- jewelry snips (For cutting metal sheet. If you are comfortable with a jeweler's saw and have one with a bench pin you can bring that instead)
- metal file (like the kind found in the hardware store).
Note: Please be sure to bring jewelry pliers rather than regular tool pliers. They are small, lightweight and made for jewelry making. You can purchase an inexpensive set for under $15.
Questions? Email Jen at jencushman@ymail.com
Website: www.jencushman.com