beads and wire, tiara designs
1 day jewellery making course

This class will be focusing on making tiaras. By the end of day you will have made a tiara (or possibly 2 tiaras) and some hair grips. You will be creating your jewellery with beads, wire and plated components.

This class is learning how to make a basic twisted and wrapped style tiara with the option of also making a flower beaded focal piece that can be attached to a tiara base, hairclip or brooch wrapped or developing your twisted/wrapped tiara further in the afternoon.

The designs on the day course will accommodate different skill levels, as each design can be made using basic skills, but can be developed further by students with intermediate wire skills and students can choose their own level of work depending on how easy they find the techniques.

Making a twisted wire style tiara is a bit fiddly and quite tiring for fingers/hands, so you can always alter your design and just include a smaller twisted wire section. There will be some jewellery making magazines and books, so feel free to take a break from twisting whenever you need one. In the afternoon there is the opportunity for those students who want a break from twisting to make the beaded flower design.

Morning

• Short intro to the beads, wire and components
• Intro to a variety of different types of twisted stems, tips, followed by practise session
• Intro to twisting wire and making a twisted wire style hair grip, tips, followed by practise session
• Intro to different tiara designs, tips and creating the twisted section of your tiara

Afternoon

• You can choose to work further to develop your twisted tiara or alternatively
• Intro to making loop style flower beaded focal pieces, tips, followed by practise session
• Intro to designs using the flower focal pieces; alicebands, tiaras, hairclips and brooches
• Intro to wrapping the tiara base with beads
• Completing unfinished pieces
• Other type of jewellery courses on offer and course feedback

The day course includes:
demos, examples, some handouts, opportunity for questions and answers, practical work and 1-1 tutor assistance.

note
Materials are available and can be purchased on the course (approx £6 - £12, depending on the beads chosen) or you are welcome to bring any of your own materials with you.

Materials list
If you wish to bring some of your own materials for the course, you will need:
beads, 0.4mm wire and some plated components, hair grips, tiara bases.
optional: hairclip, comb, brooch back, 0.325 and 0.5mm wire