Precious Metal Clay Workshop For Beginners

Enjoy this beginners workshop at Central Scotland School of Jewellery where you will learn a range of simple techniques to create your own precious metal clay pieces in fine silver!

About Precious Metal Clay Workshop For Beginners

	20th June 2026
	10am - 4pm
	Central Scotland School of Jewellery Craft Central, Riverview Building High Street, Dunblane FK15 0EE
	£175
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Level: Beginners
Discover the creative possibilities of precious metal clay in this relaxed, beginner-friendly jewellery workshop. Using this versatile material, you’ll design and create your own pieces in fine silver while learning a range of simple and rewarding techniques.

Precious metal clay (PMC) is composed of microscopic silver particles mixed with an organic binder, resulting in a soft, malleable material that can be shaped much like traditional clay. It allows for intricate detail and organic textures that are difficult to achieve through traditional metalworking. Once fired, the binder burns away, leaving behind solid fine silver.

During the workshop, you’ll explore a variety of ways to design and build your jewellery. You’ll begin by working with copper clay to experiment with techniques, including creating moulds from small found objects such as shells and buttons, and using rolled textures and cutters to develop decorative elements.

You’ll then move on to working in silver clay, applying your new skills to create finished pieces. You’ll learn how to join components using silver clay paste and build up more complex forms, before adding wires and findings to complete your designs as pendants, earrings or charms.

This course is ideal for beginners and is particularly suitable for those who may find traditional metalworking physically demanding, as precious metal clay can be shaped with relatively little hand strength.

Techniques covered
• Texturing, cutting and modelling wet silver and copper clay
• Carving and refining dry silver and copper clay
• Using silver clay paste to join components
• Mould making from natural and found objects.
• Adding silver findings and wire to create finished jewellery

What to bring:
We’ll provide all the materials you need for your Silver Clay Workshop, including 10g of silver clay, up to 10cm of fine silver, a pair of ear wires, and a chain. Any materials over this can be purchased from CSSJ.

A sketch/notebook plus a pen/pencil for notes could come in handy for this workshop.

Please bring along glasses and/or a visor if you need them.

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Precious Metal Clay Workshop For Beginners

Enjoy this beginners workshop at Central Scotland School of Jewellery where you will learn a range of simple techniques to create your own precious metal clay pieces in fine silver!

About Precious Metal Clay Workshop For Beginners

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