Metal Clay Jewellery

On the Introduction to Metal Clay Jewellery course, you will have the opportunity to make several finished items of fine silver jewellery. Click on the images in the gallery below to see the kind of items you will be making and some of the techniques you will use.

Information about Metal Clay and the materials you will be using:

What is Art Clay?
Art Clay looks and feels much like ordinary sculpting or porcelain clay. What makes Art Clay so fantastic is that it consists of extremely fine particles of pure metal (silver or gold), almost like dust, mixed up with a non-toxic organic binder. The binder burns out during firing, leaving you with a pure metal piece.

Is it actually real silver?
Yes. The silver and gold clay can be hallmarked at any UK assay office. The silver clay is classed as fine silver, which has the stamp 999 (99.9% pure silver).

Silver clay materials you will use on the course:
ART CLAY SILVER 650 SLOW DRY CLAY
This Art Clay Silver clay combines the low firing temperature of the 650 clay, with the up to 4 times longer working time of the Slow Dry clay. It has a slightly more elastic feel than the normal 650 clay. Extrude through syringe to create thin smooth snakes of clay.
Perfect for making intricate modelling shapes, or for detailed miniatures. Knot it, weave it and braid it! Use with standard Art Clay 650 Paste and Syringe. Just like the standard 650 Clay, it can be fired with a torch, gas stove, or kiln, and can be hallmarked.
ART CLAY SILVER 650 PASTE
Use the Paste to glue (wet or dry) clay parts together, for repairing cracks and filling in marks and bumps, and to add a textured surface to the clay. Can also be painted onto a burnable core, like a leaf, twig or cork clay, to create a fine silver replica.
Use the syringes to decorate your clay with squiggles and lines, to create little bezels to set lab created stones in, or on its own to make hollow filigree like designs. Simply create a core shape with cork clay and cover it with the syringe. When you fire the piece, the cork clay will burn away and leave you with a hollow delicate piece.
Keep your syringes standing in a glass of water when you're not using them. Remember to put it back as soon as you finish so the tip doesn't dry out.