The Handmade Costume Jewelry Course
Course Description
This jewelry-making course offers the practical knowledge of researching, sketching and making by hand decorative costume jewelry, using a wide variety of techniques and materials like brass, copper, nickel, silver, mother-of-pearl, tortoise shell (or their imitations), horn, plexiglas, glass, man-made precious or semi-precious stones, pearls and their combination.
Students have the choice of designing and making a piece or pieces of jewelry using their own ideas, or to reproduce historic or ethnic-types of jewelry.
    
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What You Learn
This handmade costume jewelry-making course teaches how to saw, cut, drill, file, texture, solder, rivet, polish, and combine and assemble metals with non-metal materials.
Students learn how to operate with different kinds of tools, materials and equipment, and what kind of techniques are applicable for handling different materials.
Students are encouraged to be creative in their jewelry design and making ideas.
Students become familar with styles of different historic and ethnic jewelry.
Students are taught how to organize their jewelry-making working place, and where and how to get the necessary materials and inexpensive tools and equipment.
By the end of the course, students have confidence in handling materials, tools and equipment using safety precautions.
How This Course Works
The Little Studio supplies all of the necessary equipment.
The students supply materials and the basic set of tools recommended by The Little Studio.
Students will decide what piece of jewelry they want to create or reproduce. Then they design it, or copy a design from historic or ethnic types of jewelry researched in jewelry books.
Under the personal supervision of the instructor, students make a plan of what kind of details they need to make for this piece, from what kind of materials, and using what kind of techniques, tools and equipment.
After that, the students start to work on their project under close supervision of the instructor.
What You Can Do After Completing This Course
Set up a small working place in your home, and...
Create costume jewelry for every type of clothes you wear, and/or,
Happily surprise your relatives and friends by presenting them your unique creation for their birthdays or the holidays, and/or
Potentially, sell your pieces of jewelry to private clients or jewelry stores
Cost and Other Information
The Regular (evening) courses are 3 hours, once a week over 3 months. Cost is $1,800.
The Intensive (day) courses are 4 hours every day over 2 weeks. Cost is $2,000.
The Little Studio provides all necessary equipment; students are responsible for buying materials and a set of basic tools.
In Conclusion
You will receive a great deal of satisfaction observing, as you proceed to develop a piece, how a combination of simple materials becomes a unique piece of attractive costume jewelry which will bring the wearer a great deal of enjoyment. Please call us 212-535-2412, or email us at littlestudionyc@aol.com. Welcome to the free introductory lesson.
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