Residential Crochet Wire Jewellery Workshop for all levels (2021 dates TBC)
Residential Crochet Wire Jewellery Workshop for all levels (2021 dates TBC)
The workshop is taught by Andreia Rollot Miguel
The workshop is held Casa Creativa Lagos.
The ‘wire crochet jewellery workshop’ will teach the basic crochet skills with metal wire.
You will learn to:
- Read and draw crochet patterns
- Use the tools and materials
- Know the technical specifications on copper and silver wires
- Work with the hook needle and metal wire
- The basic stiches (slip knot, chain, single, half double and double crochet)
- Join and block wires
- Add beads and join jewellery findings;
- Finish a jewellery piece (brushing, sanding, oxidising)
At the end of the workshop, students will have crocheted one piece of jewellery with silver wire. They will be challenged to design their own piece, a brooch, a pendant, a bracelet or a pair of earrings. Help will be provided by Andreia at every stage of your jewellery design process.
Included in the workshop price:
- Accommodation at Casa Creativa for 6 nights in a private ensuite room (arrive Sunday after 14:00 - depart following Saturday)
- Breakfast, Lunch and daytime refreshments (Monday to Friday)
- Evening meals with your fellow students at various local restaurant in Lagos, all within a 5-minute walk. (Monday to Friday)
- Silver wire for your piece of jewellery
- Use of equipment
- One creative local excursion per week
- A free registration to your ‘Online Casa Creativa Workshop Forum’ (You can chat with your tutor and fellow students 1 month before your workshop begins, so you feel well prepared for your workshop ahead)
Not included in the price:
- Flights and airport transfers
Maximum of 8 students per workshop.
Andreia’s Biography
I was born in 1975, in Lisbon. Threads, fabrics, pens, nails, pencils, screws, sewing machines, hammers, brushes, saws, papers, scissors, glues, paints, needles… rummaged through my creativity. From tools, from learning techniques and from materials, and their potential, creative ideas have always come to me.
After teaching French and English for many years, I decided it was time for a change in my life and too give way to my passion and nature. So, in 2008, I started my jewellery training in Contacto Directo, in Lisbon, where I had the privilege to develop both an artistic and conceptual approach to my designs and at the same time get a solid basis on silversmithing techniques. In 2010, I was awarded the school prize for my ‘Lentilhas d’água’ (water lentils) ring.
Since 2011, I’ve worked with design, museum and jewellery shops, I’ve presented my work at Bijorhca Paris, Joya Barcelona, Noite Europeia dos Investigadores, in several exhibitions and I’ve entered a few competitions, from which I am proud to have been awarded again for my jewellery designs at the “POPs (Original Portuguese Projects)”, by the Serralves Foundation Shop, in Oporto. I have also been a jewellery tutor Centro de Joalharia de Lisboa for a few years.
I now work in a small art studio and shop, Pequeno Rebento, in Lagos.
I hope to meet you at Casa Creativa and let’s make some inspired jewellery together!
www.andreiarm.com