Our one‑year Diploma in Silver Jewellery is a part‑time, hands‑on course that takes you from beginner to confident maker, building the skills, portfolio, and connections to launch your jewellery career.

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Diploma in Silver Jewellery

Our one‑year Diploma in Silver Jewellery is a part‑time, hands‑on course that takes you from beginner to confident maker, building the skills, portfolio, and...

Diploma in Silver Jewellery

This course is perfect for you if you'd like intensive training in stone setting and to spend a full 5 days exploring different stone setting techniques.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Stone Setting Intensive - 5 Days

Stone Setting Intensive - 5 Days

Learn to make a lovely set of your own jewellery to take away in this fun-filled beginners class for anyone wanting to spend a few hours making their own designer bling.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Introduction to Beading

Learn to make a lovely set of your own jewellery to take away in this fun-filled beginners class for anyone wanting to spend a few hours making their own des...

Introduction to Beading - Taster Class

*Note: before taking this class do attend Beginners Silver Jewellery I or an equivalent course.* 

 

This course is a perfect follow on from the Beginners Silver Jewellery I & II Day Class.  

Jewellers Academy Limited - Beginners Silver Jewellery 3

*Note: before taking this class do attend Beginners Silver Jewellery I or an equivalent course.* 

 

This course is a perfect follow on from the Beginners S...

Beginners Silver Jewellery 3

Are you ready to master your soldering?

As a jewellery maker, when you are confident in your soldering skills every thing else is so much easier, and what's more, you can create more intermediate and advanced designs.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Soldering masterclass

Are you ready to master your soldering?

As a jewellery maker, when you are confident in your soldering skills every thing else is so much easier, and what's...

Soldering Masterclass

Spend a day exploring round and shaped flush settings 

If you have experience of flush setting but would like to develop your skills, this is the perfect 1 day-intensive look into the world of flush setting. 

Flush settings are when faceted gemstones are set 'flush' into a piece of metal. The table of the stone is level with the metal.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Exploring Flush Settings

Spend a day exploring round and shaped flush settings 

If you have experience of flush setting but would like to develop your skills, this is the perfect 1 ...

Exploring Flush Settings

Learn to set beautifully shaped stones 

Yes, in this class you will explore setting shaped stones by creating cabochon rub-over style settings.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Stone Setting - Shaped Cabochons

Stone Setting - Shaped Cabochons

Decorate your silver jewellery and add another dimension to your work through the technique of Granulation. 

Jewellers Academy Limited - Granulation in Silver

Granulation in Silver

Come and spend two days with us, mastering the basic of stone setting. You’ll learn cabochon setting, tube setting and flush setting.

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Stone Setting in Silver - 2 days

Stone Setting in Silver - 2 days

Wax carving is a fantastic skill to learn if you'd like to make more adventurous pieces in metal. It lends itself well to organic or geometric designs.

The process of wax carving jewellery starts with the wax piece being made. This is taken to a caster where a mould is made, melting the wax and pouring molten silver or gold in to make a solid silver version of your wax mould.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Wax Carving Level 1 - Ring and Pendant Making

Wax carving is a fantastic skill to learn if you'd like to make more adventurous pieces in metal. It lends itself well to organic or geometric designs.

The ...

Wax Carving Level 1 - Ring and Pendant Making

## Learn how to make Instagram work for you and your business! 

Discover the skills you need to help grow and connect with an engaged audience, whilst really learning to love the platform in the process. 

If you enjoy using Instagram but want to know how to really get the most out of it as a marketing tool, then this one-day intensive course can set you on the right track.

This class is taught by the lovely Kelly Twigg (@willowandtwigg) who has built an Instagram following of 60,000 people through her authentic and engaging approach to the platform.

We will help you find out exactly how to use Instagram to share your jewellery, attract customers and make sales.

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Instagram for Jewellers

## Learn how to make Instagram work for you and your business! 

Discover the skills you need to help grow and connect with an engaged audience, whilst reall...

Instagram for Jewellers

Chain making is a fantastic addition to your skill set as a silver jeweller as it will make your work more personal and bespoke.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Chain making in Silver

Chain Making in Silver

This exciting wax carving course has been designed to help you further develop your skills in wax carving using the age old technique of lost wax carving. In this class you will learn how to incorporate stone settings for round or oval cabochons or faceted stones into your wax carvings.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Wax Carving Level 2 - Cabochon and Flush Stone Settings in Wax

This exciting wax carving course has been designed to help you further develop your skills in wax carving using the age old technique of lost wax carving. In...

Wax Carving Level 2 - Cabochon and Flush Stone Settings in Wax

Make some truly unique pieces by learning the art of water casting!Water casting is achieved by pouring molten metal into cold water where it immediately solidifies into a random shape.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Water Casting in Silver

Make some truly unique pieces by learning the art of water casting!Water casting is achieved by pouring molten metal into cold water where it immediately sol...

Water Casting in Silver

Come and learn how to make a beautiful silver spinner ring. These popular rings are wonderfully tactile and satisfying to make.

This class runs from 10-5pm and is a fun and intensive day. It’s the perfect next challenge if you have taken our beginners silver classes and are looking for your next challenge.

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Spinner Rings

Come and learn how to make a beautiful silver spinner ring. These popular rings are wonderfully tactile and satisfying to make.

This class runs from 10-5pm ...

Spinner Rings

Beading is such a fun and inexpensive way to start your journey into jewellery making and this one-day workshop is designed to get you inspired!

There are a few fundamentals to learn that will help ensure your creations are well made and professional so whether you've tried beading before or have no experience, this workshop is for you!

Jewellers Academy Limited - Begineers Beading

Beading is such a fun and inexpensive way to start your journey into jewellery making and this one-day workshop is designed to get you inspired!

There are a...

Beginners Beading

Are you ready to start working with gold?...

You will learn how to create up to 4 stacked rings in this class using gold, silver and precious stones.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Working With Gold 1

Working With Gold

Creating shaped claw settings

A brilliant follow-on from the 1 day Claw Setting (Round) class. This class will build on those basic claw-setting techniques and teach you to make simple claw and basket settings for shaped stones.

Spend the morning learning different-shaped claws, oval, pear, cushion cut. Followed by creating a finished claw set shaped pendant in the afternoon. 

Jewellers Academy Limited - Claw Setting - Stone Setting - Shaped Stones

Creating shaped claw settings

A brilliant follow-on from the 1 day Claw Setting (Round) class. This class will build on those basic claw-setting techniques ...

Claw Setting - Stone Setting - Shaped Stones

Advance your beading skills with wire wrapping, adding chain, complex patterns, ring making, crafting your own clasps and ear wires, and adding new materials!

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Intermediate Beading

Intermediate Beading

Add colour and design to your silver and copper jewellery with enamel.

Enamelling fuses particles of glass to the surface of metal to create a wide range of colour and pattern effects. In this beginners class, you will explore the possibilities of enamel and produce a range of sample pieces.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Enamelling Level 1

Add colour and design to your silver and copper jewellery with enamel.

Enamelling fuses particles of glass to the surface of metal to create a wide range of...

Enamelling Level 1

Let's Make Some Beautiful Sea Glass Jewellery Together! 

Whether you love searching the beach to find the perfect pieces of sea glass or perhaps you love scrolling through the various places to buy sea glass online, either way, turning these little pieces of the ocean into stunning jewellery is a hugely rewarding process. 

Jewellers Academy Limited - Sea glass jewellery class

Let's Make Some Beautiful Sea Glass Jewellery Together! 

Whether you love searching the beach to find the perfect pieces of sea glass or perhaps you love sc...

Sea Glass Jewellery

Hooked on enamelling and want to learn more?

Take your enamelling skills to the next level and learn advanced techniques including Cloisonné, Plique-à-jour and Champlevé.

This is a brilliant day full of experimenting, you will produce a range of sample pieces and try out lots of different techniques.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Enamelling Level 2

Hooked on enamelling and want to learn more?

Take your enamelling skills to the next level and learn advanced techniques including Cloisonné, Plique-à-jour ...

Enamelling Level 2

Learn modern alchemy and make your own silver clay pendant in this taster class packed with hints and tips designed for beginners.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Silver Metal Clay Taster Class

Silver Metal Clay Taster Class

Are you ready to start a jewellery business? 

This intensive course is aimed at jewellers who would like information and advice as well as a kick-start in setting up their own jewellery business.

Throughout the day you will be guided by one of our expert tutors, who all run their own successful jewellery businesses, on a whole range of topics in relation to running a jewellery business. 

 This course is an interactive workshop and an intense day packed full of information to help you get started in setting up your business.

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Start a Jewellery Business Day

Are you ready to start a jewellery business? 

This intensive course is aimed at jewellers who would like information and advice as well as a kick-start in s...

Start a Jewellery Business Day

### Our most popular class of all...

Learn to make lovely silver jewellery using traditional techniques. A great beginners class and an excellent introduction to making silver jewellery. You will leave with a silver ring and pendant that are ready to wear.

This class runs from 10-5pm and is a fun and intensive day open to anyone and suitable for absolute beginners.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Beginners Silver Jewellery 1

### Our most popular class of all...

Learn to make lovely silver jewellery using traditional techniques a great beginners class and an excellent introductio...

Beginners Silver Jewellery 1

If you have loved attending any of our wax courses you will have learnt how to create stunning jewellery in wax. But what do you do after the pieces come back from the casters? 

This one day course is open to anyone who has completed a wax course with us or elsewhere and would like to learn about how to clean up their castings and complete their projects including setting stones in some cases. 

We recommend booking this course once you have your castings returned to you from a casting company. You will need to bring your castings with you as that is what we will be using to work on in the day. 

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Wax After Casting: Clean-up and Finishing Day

If you have loved attending any of our wax courses you will have learnt how to create stunning jewellery in wax. But what do you do after the pieces come bac...

Wax After Casting: Clean-up and Finishing Day

This workshop is designed for those that have completed Beginners Silver Jewellery I or those with the experience covered in that workshop already who are looking for the next level. You will learn to make exciting projects on this workshop including a double domed ring and a pair of domed earrings or a pendant.  

Jewellers Academy Limited - Beginners Silver Jewellery 2

This workshop is designed for those that have completed Beginners Silver Jewellery I or those with the experience covered in that workshop already who are lo...

Beginners Silver Jewellery 2

Polishing and finishing your work is just as important to the overall piece as making it is! 

In most classes, there is not enough time to focus on this aspect of making so this intensive day class is designed to do just that. Throughout the day you will be shown how to achieve a range of finishes in metal from a mirror finish and textures to a satin finish and using hammering and a range of other methods to achieve texture. 

Jewellers Academy Limited - Polishing and finishing masterclass

Polishing and finishing your work is just as important to the overall piece as making it is! 

In most classes, there is not enough time to focus on this asp...

Polishing and Finishing Masterclass

Make your own silver stacking rings in just one evening! This class is perfect for beginners who want to have a go at making silver jewellery. 

Throughout the evening our experienced tutor will guide you through the process of working with silver, making your rings fit and soldering them as well as polishing them to finish them off. 

Jewellers Academy Limited - Stacked Silver Rings

Make your own silver stacking rings in just one evening! This class is perfect for beginners who want to have a go at making silver jewellery. 

Throughout t...

Silver Stacking Rings - Taster Class

Jewellers Academy Limited - Wax Carved Ring Taster Class

Wax Carved Ring Taster Class

Learn modern alchemy in this class packed with hints and tips designed for beginners.

This exciting day is designed especially with beginners in mind to give you the chance to learn new techniques and experimenting with this amazing material. 

Jewellers Academy Limited - Beginners Metal Clay

Learn modern alchemy in this class packed with hints and tips designed for beginners.

This exciting day is designed especially with beginners in mind to giv...

Beginners Metal Clay

Are you inspired by nature? Would you love to create silver jewellery with leaves, shells, acorns, seed pods, twigs etc? Then this workshop is for you!

One of the benefits of working with metal clay is that it can be moulded, textured and shaped. This makes it perfect for working with natural materials and on this workshop you will learn lots of ways to make heirloom jewellery incorporating the beauty of nature. 

Jewellers Academy Limited - Botanical Jewellery in Silver Metal Clay

Are you inspired by nature? Would you love to create silver jewellery with leaves, shells, acorns, seed pods, twigs etc? Then this workshop is for you!

One ...

Botanical Jewellery in Silver Metal Clay

Are you ready to learn how to add a touch of gold to your metal clay designs? Then this intermediate-level course is for you! Being able to work with mixed metals is a lovely way to elevate your creations.

On this one day workshop you will learn three different techniques for adding gold to your metal clay creations. 

Jewellers Academy Limited - Adding Gold to Metal Clay

Are you ready to learn how to add a touch of gold to your metal clay designs? Then this intermediate-level course is for you! Being able to work with mixed m...

Adding Gold to Metal Clay

Learn the art of sand casting in this fun and intensive 1 day course. Sand casting is a casting process you can do from home which involves making a piece, often in wax or using natural or found objects and impressing it into a bed of sand.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Sand Casting

Learn the art of sand casting in this fun and intensive 1 day course. Sand casting is a casting process you can do from home which involves making a piece, o...

Sand Casting

Develop your stone setting skills with this 1-day intensive Star Setting & Grain Setting course...

Grain setting is a technique where usually small faceted stones are set in the metal by using a sharp graver to raise a grain in the metal. This grain holds the stone in place and can provide decoration and detail to the setting.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Star Setting & Grain Setting: Stone Setting

Develop your stone setting skills with this 1-day intensive Star Setting & Grain Setting course...

Grain setting is a technique where usually small faceted ...

Star Setting & Grain Setting: Stone Setting

Improve your jewellery making skills to create more advanced fine jewellery including more intricate stone settings, working in gold and creating pieces to commission. 

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Diploma in Fine Jewellery

Improve your jewellery making skills to create more advanced fine jewellery including more intricate stone settings, working in gold and creating pieces to c...

Diploma in Fine Jewellery

Join us for a unique two-day silver clay ring-making masterclass on **22-23 September** with metal clay artist Anna Campbell, her only in-person workshop outside of Scotland!

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Make Your Own Stunning Silver Clay Rings - Two-Day Masterclass with Anna Campbell

Join us for a unique two-day silver clay ring-making masterclass on **22-23 September** with metal clay artist Anna Campbell, her only in-person workshop out...

Make Your Own Stunning Silver Clay Rings - Two-Day Masterclass with Anna Campbell

We love collet settings...

And we love this class where you can learn to make your own round rub-over setting for a faceted stone.

This class will really bring on your stone setting skills and will add a new setting technique to your repertoire. Students will make a ring with a collet setting to take away with them and be able to create settings for different sized stones. This is a perfect follow on from our two day stone setting course.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Stone Setting - Collet Setting Round

We love collet settings...

And we love this class where you can learn to make your own round rub-over setting for a faceted stone.

This class will really b...

Stone Setting - Collet Setting Round

Join top jewellery business mentors Jessica Rose, Anna Campbell, Kelly Twigg, and Emma René for an inspiring three-day retreat by the sea in Brighton. Connect with fellow jewellers, unlock your brand’s potential, and supercharge your visibility with expert guidance and fresh ideas.

Jewellers Academy Brighton - The Jewellers Visibility Retreat

Join top jewellery business mentors Jessica Rose, Anna Campbell, Kelly Twigg, and Emma René for an inspiring three-day retreat by the sea in Brighton. Connec...

The Jewellers Visibility Retreat

Time to add some colour to your metal clay jewellery designs? Then this is the class for you. 

Throughout the day you will learn three different techniques for setting stones and glass into your metal clay jewellery.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Stone Setting in Metal Clay

Time to add some colour to your metal clay jewellery designs? Then this is the class for you. 

Throughout the day you will learn three different techniques ...

Stone Setting in Metal Clay

Learn to take beautiful photographs of your work with just your smartphone!

The smartphone jewellery photography course covers:

- How to use your smartphone to take photos using dedicated camera apps
- How to find visual style and style your jewellery photographs using props
- Key composition and styling techniques
- Preparing and setting up your shoot including key equipment
- The top 3 shots for jewellery photography
- Editing your photos for sharing online
- Videos on your smartphone

This is a great value, intensive class where you will learn to take lovely photos  and videos of your jewellery which is an invaluable skill that will be used time and time again. 

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Smartphone Photography Course

Learn to take beautiful photographs of your work with just your smartphone!

The smartphone jewellery photography course covers:

- How to use your smartphon...

Smartphone Photography Course

Join us for a day to work on your skills and techniques for developing your jewellery designs. 

Design is one of the most important aspects of making jewellery yet it is often overlooked in training. Nearly all of our classes are technique based and very intensive so there is often not much time to really focus on design. This class was designed to do exactly that! 

Our excellent tutors will guide you through the design process and where to start. 

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Jewellery Design

Join us for a day to work on your skills and techniques for developing your jewellery designs. 

Design is one of the most important aspects of making jewell...

Jewellery Design

Learn to create your own beautiful claw settings in this intermediate one-day class.

Claw settings are a timeless and popular design as they allow plenty of light into the setting, helping the stones to sparkle that little bit more. In this class you will learn how to create a claw setting for round stones.

Throughout the day an expert tutor will guide you through the whole process from start to finish.

Learn to create your own beautiful claw settings in this intermediate one-day class. 

Claw settings are a timeless and popular design as they allow plenty o...

Claw Setting - Round Stones

One-off masterclass with expert goldsmith April Dace - learn how to make a five-claw tiara wedding band over 3 days.

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Tiara Wedding Band Masterclass

Tiara Wedding Band Masterclass - April Dace

Learn how to reuse reduce and recycle in this brand new course on how to keep the life of your sliver going so that nothing is wasted. Silver is a precious metal and is one of the only materials in the world that can be recycled time and time again without diminishing in value. In fact is is usually going up in value all the time!

Jewellers Academy Limited - Recycling Silver Jewellery

Learn how to reuse reduce and recycle in this brand new course on how to keep the life of your sliver going so that nothing is wasted. Silver is a precious m...

Recycling Silver Jewellery

This brand new wax carving course has been designed to help you take your wax carving skills to a whole new level, by learning how to appropriately create a claw setting in your wax carved pieces.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Wax Carving Level 4 - Claw Setting in Wax

This brand new wax carving course has been designed to help you take your wax carving skills to a whole new level, by learning how to appropriately create a ...

Wax Carving Level 3 - Claw Setting in Wax

In this fun and intensive 1 day course you will learn to create cast-in-place stone setting pieces using wax.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Wax Carving Level 3 - Cast-in-place stone setting in wax

Wax Carving Level 4 - Cast-in-Place Stone Setting in Wax

Join us for this one-off in-person masterclass and spend 3 days learning from expert stone setter Scott McIntyre to make a halo ring, complete with a central claw and pavé setting around the outside. 

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Halo Ring Masterclass - Scott McIntyre

Join us for this one-off in-person masterclass and spend 3 days learning from expert stone setter Scott McIntyre to make a halo ring, complete with a central...

Halo Ring Masterclass - Scott McIntyre

This course is perfect for you if you'd like intensive training in making jewellery from silver. Suitable for beginners or those with some experience this 5-day course taught by an industry expert will quickly get you up to speed with the core silver jewellery techniques.  

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Silver Jewellery Intensive - 5 days

This course is perfect for you if you'd like intensive training in making jewellery from silver. Suitable for beginners or those with some experience this 5-...

Silver Jewellery Intensive - 5 days

Let's make some stunning pear collets! 

A great follow on from the round collet setting course is to learn how to work with corners and create a pear collet setting.

Jewellers Academy Limited - Stone Setting - Collet Setting Pear

Let's make some stunning pear collets! 

A great follow on from the round collet setting course is to learn how to work with corners and create a pear collet...

Stone Setting - Collet Setting Pear

Come and join us for 5 days of intermediate stone setting, covering the following skills:\
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- Round Claw Setting

\- Shaped Claw Setting

\- Pear Collet Setting 

\- Flush Settings 

\- Star and Grain Settings 

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Stone Setting Intensive - Intermediate - 5 days

Come and join us for 5 days of intermediate stone setting, covering the following skills:\
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- Round Claw Setting

\- Shaped Claw Setting

\- Pear Collet Set...

Stone Setting Intensive - Intermediate - 5 days

Over the five days you will learn the following techniques:

- Working with different types of waxes 
- Making rings, pendants and charms of your own design in wax 
- Setting stones in wax including small and larger faceted stones, bezel stones and cast-in-place as well as set after casting, stone settings. 
- Using different tools to work with wax such as the heat pen, scalpels, wax carving tools and classic jewellers files and saws 
- Sand casting and how to cast a wax piece of your design using the sand casting method 
- How to clean up your wax pieces after casting them 
- With plenty of hints and tips from our professional tutors throughout the programme. 

Jewellers Academy Brighton - Wax Carving Intensive - 5 Days

Over the five days you will learn the following techniques:

- Working with different types of waxes 
- Making rings, pendants and charms of your own design ...

Diploma in Silver Jewellery

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