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Jewellery Making Holidays, Short Breaks & Workshops in the Beautiful Aveyron, SW France
We run a variety of jewellery making holidays all year round. From short breaks to a week long holidays, all are suitable for absolute beginners and those looking to expand their skills. We specialise in teaching using sterling silver, semi-precious stones, Swarovski crystal and freshwater pearls.
Featured in the Sunday Times Best 100 Summer
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You will stay in our lovingly restored farmhouse in your own large comfortable attic bedroom with exposed stone walls and lofty high ceilings.
We are also vegetarian friendly, just let us know when you book ! We'd love you to click on our new Facebook button !
Price Includes accommodation, breakfast, lunch, transfers from and to Rodez airport* and materials.
Cheap flights are usually available via RyanAir. Please feel free to call with any questions - 00 33 6 30 74 20 35 or 00 33 5 65 46 13 55.
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Introduction to Silversmithing 2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person 2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person We will take you through all the basic techniques Including sawing, hammering, forming, soldering, cleaning and polishing and you will design and make a number of pieces including rings and a pendant NEW - Introduction to Silversmithing & Jewellery Making Basics - 3 Workshop Days / 4 Nights - £395 - We added a day of jewellery making basics to our standard workshop for those of you who want to include beads in your silver work but don't have any basic jewellery making experience - the additional day includes wire wrapping, opening and closing jump rings and making earwires and basic beaded earrings. |
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Introduction to Jewellery Making 2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person 2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person All the basics from choosing and using tools to learning how to make your own findings & ear wires, making wire wrapped loops, using crimps, beading etc and you'll have a choice of projets including earrings, bracelets, necklaces and wire rings. A wonderful introduction to jewellery making if you haven't the time for our week. NEW - Introduction to Jewellery Making & Basic Soldering - 3 Workshop Days / 4 Nights - £395 - Our Introduction to Jewellery Making workshop plus 1 day of basic soldering making your own soldered jump rings and heavier hammered soldered rings as elements to use in your jewellery making plus a pretty set of stacker rings. |
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NEW - Silversmithing Special - Rings Workshop - Stacker, Spinner, Anticlastic & Barrelled ! |
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NEW - Stamping Workshop 2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person 2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person Basic jewellery making and stamping - Stamped, personalised jewellery is becoming more and more popular, learn how to stamp words, designs, pendants, rings and bracelets. Workshop by arrangement - please email me with your prefered dates. |
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Wireworking Workshop including Making Perfect Wire Wrapped Loops 2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person This workshop will teach you all the basics from making wrapped or simple loops, through to forming shapes, making simple chains and clasps, making earwires & earrings, opening & closing jump rings, making light fine silver head pins with a torch, hammering to harden, making a wonderful bracelet and lots more.. NEW - We are now including the beautiful herringbone wrapping technique ! |
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NEW - Handmade Findings Masterclass 2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person 2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person Make your handmade jewellery really special and unique with your own handmade findings - learn to design and make ear wires to suit your earring designs, clasps, earring, bracelet and necklace elements - Please email me for more information. |
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Tiara Making & Wedding Jewellery 2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person 2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person You will learn to design and make 1-2 stunning tiaras and a beautiful, sparkly hair vine as well as earrings, bracelets and necklaces and maybe presents for your bridesmaids too ! |
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Introduction to Chainmail 2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person 2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person We will make lots of earrings (giving you chance to learn a number of weaves in a short time) and at least one bracelet - the weaves covered will include European 4 in 1 weave and the timelessly beautiful Byzantine Chain. You will also learn wire wrapping and how to make your own findings. |
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Charm Bracelet - Silversmithing and Precious Metal Clay (PMC) 2 Days / 3 Nights - £300 per person 2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £345 per person You will make your charm bracelet from scratch using sterling silver wire and silversmithing techniques and design and made charms using PMC along with learning how to create dangles for your bracelet using semi-precious stones - You'll go home with lots of new techniques (including torch and kiln firing PMC) and a gorgeous unique charm bracelet (we'll make sure we have some time for earrings too !) Please email me if you would like to book this workshop. |
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A Week of Jewellery Making - Learn to Design and Make Your Own Jewellery £650 per person A fabulous week of jewellery making covering a wide variety of projects from stringing to wire work & chain mail, lots of earrings to beading a wonderful sparkly bracelet in Swarovski crystals. We will cover all the basics plus much much more and you'll go home relaxed with lots of beautiful jewellery. |
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Optional Extra - Lampwork Taster - £155 After experiencing a fantastic lampwork taster session ourselves with Mido, the very talented artis at Au Fil de L'eau we decided to offer this as an optional day out. The price includes a half day of lampwork bead tuition (the beads will be properly annealed and sent on to you), transport to Montpellier (wonderful countryside and includes a visit to the tallest bridge in the world !) and an afternoon shopping and sightseeing in Montpellier (also has a lovely beach), le Couvertoirade (wonderful walled Knights Templar village) or Millau and a picnic lunch. Please contact me for more details & availability. |
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Come With a Friend (also Perfect Mother and Daugher Breaks) Book a short break or weeks holiday with a friend and you will get the workshops and cottage to yourselves we won't take any other bookings for the time you are with us. |
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One to One Workshop - Workshop designed to suit you and you get the cottage to yourself ! (unfortunately we cannot offer these workshops in July or August) 2 Days / 3 Nights - £425 Week - £975 The Ultimate in attention - We design the workshop around you, what you want to learn and make (we discuss prelimary ideas with you before you arrive to make sure you get the most our of your time). We arrange the sightseeing to suit you whether you want to spend all your time jewellery making, spend some time relaxing by the lake, exploring the Aubrac or visiting local sights. You get the whole cottage to yourself as we don't take any other bookings whilst you are with us. Spoil yourself - you know you deserve to get away from it all and have some "me time". Just email me and we can talk about what you want to do ! |
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Rosary Workshop 3 Days / 4 Nights - £385 per personA two day workshop exploring various methods of making rosaries including rosary bracelets - Dates will be by arrangement so please email me if you are interested in this workshop. There will be 2 full workshop days plus a day of sightseeing. The sightseeing day will be spent visiting Conque and at least two stopping off points along the pilgrims route "Les Chemins de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle " Workshop by arrangement - please email me to arrange |
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Dichroic Glass Fusing & Jewellery 2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person 2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person 2 half days of fusing this fantastic glass interspersed with 2 half days of making your glass into jewellery. Workshops by arrangement - Please contact me if you would like to book a date for this workshop . |
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Wire Ring Workshop Fun and addictive - Once you start making wire rings you won't be able to stop - This popular workshop is part of a number of our holidays - please click the photo for more details |
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* Please add £75 for pickups from Montpellier and £100 from Toulouse Airports to cover additional mileage - please contact me for more information
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