Introduction to Artisanal Jewelry
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Course overview
- Provider
- Domestika
- Course type
- Paid course
- Level
- Beginner
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Lessons
- 11 lessons
- Certificate
- Available on completion
- Course author
- Caralarga
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Ana Holschneider and María del Socorro Gasca are the founders of Caralarga, a high quality artisan jewelry workshop with which they seek to highlight the natural characteristics of the materials they use and increase the value of manual work. It is a textile design and production project whose main production line is jewelery, although they also produce clothing and decoration pieces of medium and large format.
In this course you will learn the basic artisan techniques to create contemporary style textile jewelry. Ana and Soco will teach you how to take advantage of local materials, accentuating and highlighting the characteristics of textile and natural fibers; next to them you will discover weaving techniques, moorings and closures that will allow you to create sober and elegant pieces from scratch.
This is a basic course on textile jewelry in which you will learn elementary techniques to create simple pieces of contemporary style. If you want to take your first steps in this fantastic world this is your course.
Description
First you will meet Ana and Soco, the founders of Caralarga, and they will talk to you about how they started their line of high quality artisan jewelry. In addition, they will show you some of the pieces and themes that inspire them the most when creating and they will tell you everything you need to know about cotton yarn and sansevieria fiber, two of the most used materials in their workshop.
Next you will discover the necessary tools to work and perform a series of exercises that will help you to make the basic fabric that you will use in the assembly of the pieces (straight line, double line and the U-shaped assembly), you will also learn to add closures and moorings (such as buttonhole closure, slipknot and Franciscan knot).
Once you have mastered all these essential techniques, you will get down to work to create your first pieces of textile jewelry: a necklace, a bracelet and some earrings or earrings.
To finish Ana and Soco will show you some of their secrets to take advantage of the leftover materials of jewelry making and they will give you some tips to turn them into accessories or incorporate them into the packaging of your products once they are finished.
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