Anticlastic Raising: Bracelets with Pattie Parkhurst for June
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$165.00
$165.00
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Sunday, June 11 from 9 am to 5 pm. Become a member to take advantage of discounted pricing for all our classes.
Additional materials fee payable to instructor in class.
For more information about the class and our cancellation policy, see below.
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Class Description
This ancient Irish technique dates to over 2500 years old! Anticlastic raising is my specialty and I love to teach others about this beautiful craft. This is a common technique metal artist and jewelers use to get 3 dimension to their work. With a few easy steps and practice this technique can be translated easily to other types of jewelry. In this specific workshop you will learn to make two types of anticlastic bracelets, both cuff type bracelets, that are elegant and light weight. Students will learn how to hammer a flat sheet of metal up to a nice tapered bracelet that can be any size. The next project is a raised hallow form cuff with beads in the center. BONUS: I will be talking about the history of the technique and the tools essential to the trade, as I have done research and spent time in Ireland for this technique.
Prerequisites
Some metal experience is advised however I have had complete novices successfully complete this class (students may not complete the second bracelet).
About the Instructor
Pattie has been dreaming and living jewelry since she started making it as a child. In college, she took her dreams of making jewelry a step further and pursued metalsmithing classes. After college she found the Sweetman Allen studio. Pattie would spend her time working at her part-time job, and the rest of her free time learning from Richard Sweetman, who she has named many of my pieces after.
Some of the inspiration for Pattie's pieces come from the time she spent in Ireland. Her studio was located in a workhouse that was once the home to the poor and suffering during the famine of 1845. The individuals that stayed in these workhouses were given uniforms and a basic diet of oats and water in exchange for hard labor day after day. There were some 130 workhouses that housed around 2,000 people from local towns and villages.
Today, these workhouses have been remodeled into museums, bars, and the one she stayed in, Workhouse Studios, a studio for artists. The jewelry studio was in the old altar where mass was held. Lots of creativity takes place in the workhouse including ceramics, papermaking, glass, textiles, and jewelry. The artists in the workhouse become savvy business folks, and they are ahead of the game. The things Pattie learned there and the beautiful surroundings still inspire her to this day and you will see the beauty of Ireland in some of her designs.
Dress Code
Closed-toed shoes and a tie for long hair are required in the studio.
Students Should Bring
Materials Kit (Supplied by Instructor)
Maximum number of students: 8. Students will be required to sign a waiver. Participants must be 18 or older.
Cancellation Policy
Waitlist
If the class is full, send an email to [email protected] with the name of the class, your name and ‘please add me to the waitlist’.
This ancient Irish technique dates to over 2500 years old! Anticlastic raising is my specialty and I love to teach others about this beautiful craft. This is a common technique metal artist and jewelers use to get 3 dimension to their work. With a few easy steps and practice this technique can be translated easily to other types of jewelry. In this specific workshop you will learn to make two types of anticlastic bracelets, both cuff type bracelets, that are elegant and light weight. Students will learn how to hammer a flat sheet of metal up to a nice tapered bracelet that can be any size. The next project is a raised hallow form cuff with beads in the center. BONUS: I will be talking about the history of the technique and the tools essential to the trade, as I have done research and spent time in Ireland for this technique.
Prerequisites
Some metal experience is advised however I have had complete novices successfully complete this class (students may not complete the second bracelet).
About the Instructor
Pattie has been dreaming and living jewelry since she started making it as a child. In college, she took her dreams of making jewelry a step further and pursued metalsmithing classes. After college she found the Sweetman Allen studio. Pattie would spend her time working at her part-time job, and the rest of her free time learning from Richard Sweetman, who she has named many of my pieces after.
Some of the inspiration for Pattie's pieces come from the time she spent in Ireland. Her studio was located in a workhouse that was once the home to the poor and suffering during the famine of 1845. The individuals that stayed in these workhouses were given uniforms and a basic diet of oats and water in exchange for hard labor day after day. There were some 130 workhouses that housed around 2,000 people from local towns and villages.
Today, these workhouses have been remodeled into museums, bars, and the one she stayed in, Workhouse Studios, a studio for artists. The jewelry studio was in the old altar where mass was held. Lots of creativity takes place in the workhouse including ceramics, papermaking, glass, textiles, and jewelry. The artists in the workhouse become savvy business folks, and they are ahead of the game. The things Pattie learned there and the beautiful surroundings still inspire her to this day and you will see the beauty of Ireland in some of her designs.
Dress Code
Closed-toed shoes and a tie for long hair are required in the studio.
Students Should Bring
- Planishing hammer. Either the Fretz® P-1 Michael Good Planishing Hammer, 5.6 oz. or Allcraft planishing hammer 077-01.
- Fretz® CP-1 Michael Good Cross-Peen Hammer, 4.1 oz.
- Students need a sheet of 24 ga metal of their choice preferably 12” x6”: sterling silver, argentium or copper
- Ring mandrel
- Bring an assortment of pliers you already have (don’t go buy any)…
- Flat head pliers
- Round pliers
- Ring pliers
- Bring your regular toolkit
- If you have anticlastic tools of your own bring them.
- Pattie will have stakes to use and they will be for sale after class if you want.
Materials Kit (Supplied by Instructor)
- Delrin Stake, small. Essential, Pattie will provide this but you do not have to purchase. $25 optional purchase
- Delrin Stake, medium. Essential, Pattie will provide this but you do not have to purchase. $30 optional purchase
Maximum number of students: 8. Students will be required to sign a waiver. Participants must be 18 or older.
Cancellation Policy
- You may cancel up to 30 days prior to the start of the class and receive a full refund, less $25 processing. To cancel, send an email to [email protected].
- Cancellations less than 30 days prior to the start date will not be refunded.
- In the event we have to cancel a class, you will be notified prior to the start date and will be issued a full refund.
- Registration is not transferrable. You may not sell your seat to another student.
- If a class has multiple sessions, and you miss one, there is no make up opportunity and the instructor will not catch you up at the next class session. You may not join the next scheduled class, as there’s a maximum number of students for every class and it’s not fair to the other students.
- Please plan extra time to find us if you’re coming to BoMA for the first time. If you are late to a class, the instructor will not catch you up. There’s a structured curriculum for every class and its not fair to other students to skip part of the curriculum to catch up a student who’s late.
- Snow. Colorado has frequent snowstorms in the winter and does a good job maintaining their roads in the snow. Snowy weather is a regular occurrence in our area and most people are accustomed to traveling under such conditions. Classes will be cancelled only in the case of inclement weather conditions that would make class attendance unsafe. If the National Weather Services issues a Winter Storm Warning for the time period of the class, we will cancel the class. https://www.weather.gov/bou/winterguide
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- No Exceptions.
Waitlist
If the class is full, send an email to [email protected] with the name of the class, your name and ‘please add me to the waitlist’.
