Here I share my experiences with working with different types of silver clay, share some top tips to help you get the best from working with silver clay and also talk about some frequently asked questions that come up often from my students.
Shrinkage and Silver Clay: What It Is and Why It Matters As usual, this blog comes from a place of necessity — if you’re making items with silver clay, sooner or later, you’ll notice it shrinks. Silver clay shrinkage is just a fact of life when working with this...
Pricing – how to price your handmade silver clay jewellery Or any other jewellery for that matter! This blog isn’t applicable to just silver clay – the principles for pricing handmade anything is pretty much the same. So how do you price your handmade silver clay...
Why is it so hard to price your jewellery? One of the most common questions I get asked in my School is how to price jewellery. But hidden behind that fairly loaded question is why is it so hard to price my jewellery? It's a great question and whilst there are some...
Using Cellulose Gel to Reconsitute Silver Clay Today, I am sharing my experiences of using cellulose gel to reconstitute silver clay. Why? Have you found that reconstituting your silver clay hasn’t been going as planned? Has it been crumbly and not coming together...
Can you refire Silver Clay? I was teaching a workshop the other day and I was talking about refiring a piece made from Silver Clay and someone asked me “Wait, what…you can refire Silver Clay?” and it occurred to me that some people may not know that. I am here...
Using Silver Clay in Hot Weather - 7 top tips Over the last few days, the weather in the UK has been beautiful. I’m talking long summer days, blue skies and hot weather. It is a blessing and the sunshine invariably makes us feel so much better about the...
When things go wrong and Silver Clay gets dry...I've help you save your silver clay!
How to achieve a high shine polish by hand on Silver Clay I am often asked by my students how to achieve a high shine polish on a piece of silver clay. Now for many people, it comes as a surprise that a mirror finish is possible on a piece of silver clay, but it...