Design, Arts and Crafts - Jewellery Designer/Maker
Design, Arts and Crafts - Jewellery Designer/Maker
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Jewellery designer/makers create jewellery and decorative products, using materials like gemstones, precious metals, acrylics and enamels.
- Discuss design ideas with your client
- Produce designs and scale drawings by hand or with CAD software
- Cut, shape and set precious stones and metals with hand and machine tools
- Repair or restore jewellery and silverwork to its original condition
- Finish items by polishing, enamelling and engraving
- Check the quality of finished products
As a Jewellery designer/maker, you could work in a creative studio, from home, in a workshop or in a factory.
You would also work in markets or online to sell your work, if you're self-employed.
Jewellery designers/makers tend to work between 40 to 42 hours a week. You could work weekends as customers demand.
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You can get into this job through a a university course, a college course, an apprenticeship or specialist courses run by a professional body.
You can do a foundation degree, higher national diploma or degree in:
jewellery design
jewellery and silversmithing
You may be able to start in this job through a Jewellery, Silversmithing and Allied Trades Professional Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship.
The British Academy of Jewellery also offers apprenticeships in jewellery and silversmithing in Birmingham and London.
You could do short, specialist courses run by organisations like the British Academy of Jewellery and Goldsmiths' Foundation Programme.
Courses like these can lead on to apprenticeships or training in further or higher education.