student cast mayan pendant
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Student workshop mishaps

It doesn’t always go to plan! I always strive to ensure that students attending my jewellery workshops create successful pieces. Sometimes this doesn’t happen. After all, this is a learning environment and failures are part of that journey. Here is a Mayan pendant cast by one of my students during a jewellery workshop. The piece…

Keum-Boo Jewellery Workshop

Keum-Boo Jewellery Workshop

Keum–boo is a very old gilding technique, originating in Korea, that is used to apply very thin sheets of 24 karat gold to silver surfaces for decoration in the form of a silver-gilt. It’s very much like a silver leaf. Traditionally, this technique is accomplished by first depleting a surface of sterling silver to bring…