Goldsmithing course at Wytwornia Antidotum Studio lets you acquire professional jewellery making skills. The course programme covers technical aspects and the key basics of ergonomics in jewellery design.

STUDYING PRO COURSE
Our PRO course for foreign students is available only in private tuition. The programme is divided in parts covering basic, intermediate and complex issues of goldsmithery. The whole course duration is 180 working hours consisting of practice and theory. Each of the course parts needs about 30 hours to accomplish .
Students, who want to follow PRO course programme, can do it at one stay or divide it in parts. More about the way to organize private course and fees you’d find by this link.

JEWELLERY PRO COURSE PROGRAMME
You can start our PRO course at a beginner level or higher if you already have experience in jewelry making. By acquiring the skills programmed for each part of the course, you will also be able to attend profiled courses that focus in details of selected topics.
BEGINNERS
Part 1: basic techniques, 30 hours
- Precious metals and base metals (features, properties and function), hallmarking
- gemstones and jewellery adornments (features, properties and function of patinas, enamels and plastics)
- sheet metal cutting (shears, guillotine, jeweller’s saw, jeweller’s table saw); using calipers
- sheet metal forming, annealing, finishing, drilling
- making chain links
- soldering, pickling
- surface finish methods
- round and flat band rings
Recommended complementary profiled courses: Amber, Glass Enamels
Part 2: basic techniques, 30 hours
Melting, casting, rolling mill, drawing
- synclastic and anticlastic rings
- patinas
- soldering different materials
- earring construction
- brooch construction, ‘hollow forms’, element matching „
- dapping and drawing tubing
Recommended complementary profiled courses: Amber, Glass Enamels, Casting
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
Term 3: advanced techniques
Advanced goldsmithing techniques:
- inlay
- cabochon bezel setting
- riveting techniques
Recommended complementary profiled courses: Amber, Glass Enamels, Casting
Part 4: advanced techniques, 30 hours
- mass production (forming and cutting dies, hand press, preparing a model for casting)
- use of fabrics and plastics (resins, acrylics)
- hinges
- cubic zirconia setting – encased
Recommended complementary profiled courses: Amber, Glass Enamels, Casting, Course in steel jewelry
ADVANCED LEVEL
Part 5: setting gemstones, 30 hours
- advanced stonesetting techniques: prong setting, bead setting, channel setting, setting angular stones, making a crown setting
Recommended complementary profiled courses: Amber, Glass Enamels, Casting, Course in steel jewelry, Advanced Goldsmiting
Part 6: precision practice, 30 hours
Precision practice:
- fabricating advanced clasps (bayonet clasps, box clasps, etc.)
- constructing spring-link cufflinks
- threading
- optional: working with gold
Recommended complementary profiled courses: Amber, Glass Enamels, Casting, Course in steel jewelry, Advanced Goldsmiting