Jewelry Design: Metal and Enamel
Making the Findings
A course by Sabrina Formica , Jewelry Maker
About the video: Making the Findings
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to finish your pieces with hand-made findings for a very personal touch. Want to go that extra mile? This is how! ”
In this video lesson Sabrina Formica addresses the topic: Making the Findings, which is part of the Domestika online course: Jewelry Design: Metal and Enamel. Design and make a set of accessories by exploring a variety of jewelry-making techniques like saw piercing, metal modeling, and low temperature enameling..
Partial transcription of the video
“So in this lesson, I will show you how to make your pieces wearable, which means we will see how to create our findings and connections in order to create our jewelry. The tools we need are basic pliers, the one to cut, the one to apply the metal and the one to make it rounded, a wire, unless you prefer to buy some of the wire you will find like with ball, head pin or flat one, to make your earrings. The same stuff can be used for the necklace, but I will show you how to create the hoop and the earrings from the scratch. Just remember to smooth all the edges with the file. Now I will show y...”
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Course summary for: Jewelry Design: Metal and Enamel
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Category
Craft, Fashion -
Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Decorative Painting, DIY, Fashion Design, Jewelry Design
Sabrina Formica
A course by Sabrina Formica
Sabrina Formica is a designer and a passionate jewelry maker from Bari, Puglia in Italy. She lives and works between Milan and Bari, where she focuses on her jewelry collections, and offers ceramic and jewelry-making classes. After many years of experience as a fashion and graphic designer in Italy and abroad, she found her true calling in jewelry.
Her interest in jewelry is just not about the beauty of the materials, but about the magic in transforming a simple piece of metal, mostly brass from industrial residue, into a wearable work of art, which enclose memories and personal feelings. Jewelry is for her is the perfect combination of everything she likes the most: from illustration to sculpture, from poetry to experimentation. Her work has been selected for international exhibitions and art shows.
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