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How to Make Silver Clay Jewellery

18/3/2018

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​Silver Clay Jewellery
I’ve been on this course myself three times and I still haven’t got it out of my system just yet! What is it with jewellery that’s so fascinating? Perhaps it’s something to do with how it makes you feel.

How do you make silver clay jewellery?
Silver clay is a lovely new material which is fully mouldable, just like clay. You can shape it free-hand, or use moulds and tools to texture and shape it, and then fire it into fine silver (99.9% pure silver). Firing is by specialist kiln or there are alternative firing techniques you can do yourself at home.

​You can learn the techniques in a matter of hours, then go onto design and create jewellery in the same day. Silver clay moulds very much like Play-Doh, so if your design works there, it will look even better in fine silver. TIP: practice on Play-Doh first, not on your silver clay!


I made two pendants on my first day, and three rings the next. Give them a polish (by machine or by hand), add chains or fixings, jewels, pearls and a lovely box, and your indulgence is complete.

Silver clay comes in a lovely paste too, so you can paint it onto leaves and other treasures from nature to preserve them perfectly in this precious metal.  BBC recently featured silver clay on Countryfile, turning ferns and twigs into fine silver gorgeousness. I cast a leaf pendant on my third day course and now wear it almost daily on a long chain. It feels wonderful, so very tactile.

See our range of Silver Clay Jewellery Workshops and come and try it for yourself!


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    Yvonne Sonsino

    Director of Ardington School of Crafts

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