Setting Stones In Precious Metal Clay Workshop
Adult Online Workshop | This class has been canceled
Take your PMC designs to the next level! Add color and brilliance to your pieces by learning to set natural and lab-grown stones in PMC.
Learn which stones can be fired in the kiln, and how to flush-set stones to fire in PMC-3. Learn the special considerations for bezel setting stones in PMC using PMC-3, lab grown stones, and pre-formed settings. Demonstrations or discussion of the slip-syringe for setting, prong setting, and channel setting will be included as time permits. Materials fee of approx. $115.00 includes sufficient PMC-3, supplies and significant handouts to complete class projects. Inexpensive faceted and cabochon stones will be available for purchase at the workshop. Basic PMC tools, including portable work-surface, are required and will not be provided. (A small tool kit may be rented in class for $3.00)
- Setting Stones in PMC Student Supply List
- 1. Texturing materials such as: bottle caps, tube caps, fresh leaves, coarse fabric remnants, screening (plastic- not aluminum), tree bark, comb. Texture plates can be purchased on-line, search under PMC tools or PMC texture sheets.
- 2. Magnifiers if needed for close-up work
- 3. Safety glasses and dust mask
- Please bring your lunch to save valuable working time.
Nancy Karpel
Nancy Karpel holds a BS from Albertus Magnus College, and PMC Guild Teacher's Certification. She has taught jewelry making at schools and art centers throughout her 46 years as a professional jewelry artist. Nancy has been published and her work exhibited extensively. Her work has been featured in several books on the subject of Precious Metal Clay. She sells her work through her New Haven, CT studio, N. Karpel Studio LLC, where she produces a line of contemporary jewelry, and through her website www.nancykarpeljewelry.com.