Learn to create simple and elegant silver bezels to frame your polymer clay jewelry components. Day one will cover beginning soldering and basic metalworking techniques. Discuss the equipment needed to set up a simple soldering station in your home studio and practice basic soldering skills with brass wire. On day two, learn how to make elegant silver bezels, and to use these bezels to fabricate gorgeous jewelry components. This workshop is for all levels and assumes no prior experience in metalworking.

Add excitement and sophistication to your polymer clay jewelry by incorporating traditional metalworking into your designs. Learning to include basic, age-old metalworking techniques will raise your work to a new level of refinement. Learn beginning soldering skills using an inexpensive butane torch, and a few other basic skills such as sawing, filing and shaping metal. Create a necklace clasp that incorporates all the skills learned. This workshop is for all levels and assumes no prior experience in metalworking.

Step beyond the safety of symmetrical design into the exciting world of asymmetry. Discover how the smallest design choices can make or break the success of a piece. Using Gestalt theory on how we perceive and interpret visual information, explore concepts of balance and unity. Look at many examples of successful polymer clay design and discuss how these principles are at play, and do simple hands-on exercises to put this new knowledge to work.

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