Beadweaving Jewellery Next Steps - High Pavement House, Sutton-in-Ashfield - Adult Learning

About this course

Build on your existing beadweaving skills to create three pieces of bead-woven jewellery.  

You will learn a new beadweaving stitch to create a piece of jewellery each week. We will cover St Petersburg stitch, tubular herringbone and netting, creating a unique piece of jewellery with each.  

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?  

Create a design using St. Petersburg stitch to turn into a pendant or earrings. 

Create a bracelet using tubular herringbone 

Create a necklace using beaded netting.  

Improve hand eye coordination 

What skills or knowledge do learners already need to have to attend the course? 

Have previously done some simple beadweaving and have basic jewellery making skills (being able to add on clasps, ends and earwires). 

Resources required:

-Size 8 seed beads in a range of colours. Seed beads are small glass beads that come in a range of sizes – we will be using size  8 (sometimes styled 8/0) during this course. Please note that size 8 is not the same as 8mm.  

-Beading needles in size 10 or 12 

-Beading thread (Nymo or S-Lon size D) in a colour, or colours, that blend with your beads.  

-Small scissors 

-Beading mat or tray 

-Basic jewellery making findings including earwires, 6mm jump rings and clasps 

-Jewellery chainnose pliers 

Supplies can be purchased from: 

The Bead Shop Nottingham 

www.beadsunlmited.com 

Hobbycraft 

Amazon 

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information  https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking.  If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).  As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

Any questions?

Check the FAQs page, or get in touch:

• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: learning@inspireculture.org.uk

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