Undergraduate Course: Jewellery Techniques (LLLA10002)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course is suitable for those who wish to expand their skills and develop jewellery-making techniques such as sawing, forming and soldering.
Focus will be placed on an introduction to press forming with sheet metal. Students will be taught to use riveting and doming methods to create a pendant or a brooch to practice these skills.
Design issues will be explored within each student's individual projects, such as the relationship between a two-dimensional design on paper and its realisation as a developed three-dimensional form.
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| Course description |
Over the class sessions the course will cover:
Demonstrations and practice of sawing, soldering, press forming, doming and riveting.
Each student making a pendant or brooch using these skills
Discussion of personal projects followed by experimentations and test pieces to develop ideas
Start production of personal project pieces
Continue working on personal project pieces
Finish work on personal project pieces
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to:
RESEARCH
show relevant research and development relating to a personal project, and also research into a range of suggested artists or designers and how their work has influenced understanding of contemporary jewellery.
- PRACTICE
demonstrate confidence in working with the press forming technique to produce distinctive and individual jewellery using different methods of construction and a range of materials.
show a developed understanding of the design process for small-scale wearable jewellery by experimenting with sketches, tests and samples.
- PRESENT
make at least 1 finished piece relating to research and development of ideas.
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Reading List
Teach Yourself Jewellery Making
Emma Gale and Ann Little (Hodder Headline Ltd., 2000)
The Complete Metalsmith ¿ An Illustrated Handbook
Tim McCreight (Davis Publications Inc., 1991)
Jewellery Making: A Complete course for beginners
Jinks MacGrath (2008)
Non-precious Jewellery: Methods and techniques (design & make)
Kathie Murphy
Jewellery from Recycled Materials
Jamie MacDonald (2009)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Jewellery making techniques
designing 3d objects
transforming and combining materials
ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of jewellery design
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
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Course secretary | Ms Sherrey Landles
Tel: (0131 6)50 4400
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