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Chiselling and embossing Laboratory
Studying Jewellery at Laboratorio
The Jewellery workshops are designed for students wishing to focus their future on the world of antique and contemporary jewellery.
In this laboratory, you will obtain everything you need to develop a professional career in the world of jewellery, and you will acquire the ability to know how to use each of the techniques to be applied at will.
In these workshops, you will work in a stimulating training environment where creativity, innovation, originality and excellence are encouraged and valued.
Why choose this course at Laboratorio Firenze?
Florence is the most important city in the history of jewellery in Italy and in Europe and it boasts the best goldsmiths. In Florence, you can visit and participate in seminars that have been following this wonderful tradition for years and you will learn the techniques to be among the best professionals.
As long as there are places and you have been admitted, you can start at any time. Our lessons are for small groups and you will be followed by our tutor, in accordance with your level at the start of the course. In these courses, we do not admit more than 12 participants per tutor in each class.
As well as being the cradle of the Renaissance, Florence has a long tradition and a worldwide reputation in the world of fashion and art, perfectly intertwining tradition, contemporaneity and modernity.
All those mix perfectly in the jewellery art.
You will have the possibility, in different phases of the course, to work in a company or organization in this field, collaborating with them and developing business projects where you will acquire the necessary experience to realize events focused on the exhibition of your works.
You will learn traditional and modern techniques with particular attention towards the design of jewellery and artistic objects through different techniques and distinguished masters.
At Laboratorio Firenze, you will share communal spaces with artists from different disciplines with whom you can share ideas and projects.
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Tutor: Yuko Inagawa
All our courses are personalized
We will assist you with care and dedication, making sure that all your efforts and doubts are resolved at your own pace, accompanied by your tutors always with the utmost availability and commitment.
A maximum of 12 students per course allows us to follow the technical and artistic evolution of each student.
Courses are held on:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
In the morning: from 9,00 to 12,00
In the afternoon: from 13,00 to 16,00 or from 16,00 to 19,00
Laboratory Description
(Minimum a month)
Embossing and chiselling are techniques that in gold work are generally used together: the first is done on the back of a sheet of metal (“verso”) on which a drawing or design has been traced, while the second is carried out on the front side (“recto”) of the same sheet of metal.
Embossing is an antique technique by which a drawing or design is reproduced in relief by deforming a sheet of metal without heating it: the sheet of metal is secured to a mobile support whose surface is made of a malleable substance and the work is carried out on the reverse side of the sheet, (verso) with mallets and rounded-tip punches, utilizing the malleability of the metal or alloy.
Chiselling, also an antique technique, is a complimentary procedure which follows the embossing process, as it is used to carry out the finishing touches on the reverse side of the sheet of metal by mallets and chisels or punches similar to the previous ones but smaller and with different shapes: on the front of the metal sheet (recto) which has been shaped by the embossing, the contours of the drawing or decorative pattern are refinished and new ones which are smaller and more precise are added by light tapping of the chisel.
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