I have started working a lot in silver, and recently figured out how to do keum-boo (Korean gilding with heat and pressure).
Now that I have a successful attempt, I would like to see if there is interest in my putting together a small “make-along” style mini-course - where we try out combinations of keum-boo, patination of silver, different ways to texture silver and how these can be combined. (it is entirely reasonable, for instance, to get blue, purple, gold, silver and black in the same piece - by using cold water for slow patination, and selectively polishing away the patina).
My basic idea would be that I bring raw material - silver medallions for us to work on (either to make a necklace medallion, or to make earrings), gold leaf, liver of sulfur and some tools, and we then experiment together to see what happens when we combine them.
Once I know if there’s enough interest, I’ll price out the materials and figure out how much I will be asking for - but off the top of my head a 2cm x 3cm medallion, a jump ring and half a gold leaf would clock in at less than £10, and two silver pieces with ear ring findings to go with them would be similar in price.
