jewellery making masterclasses at the British Library

Wow. It was a great honour to have the opportunity to combine my interest in Anglo Saxon artwork with teaching jewellery making. Taking inspiration from the British Library’s landmark Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition and teaching two masterclasses for the British Library in 2018/2019 followed by further Masterclasses in February 2020 linked to their Anglo-Saxon illustrated manuscripts and in March 2023 being inspired by their Gold exhibition and illustrated manuscripts.

Read my series of blog posts about how I began teaching Anglo-Saxon jewellery-making workshops 

bespoke jewellery-making classes and workshops

2hr tasters or 1-day workshops
Small groups (friends, families, work colleagues etc) or 1-1 can book a midweek morning, afternoon or early evening 2hr taster or 1-day jewellery-making workshop at my studio March-April and October-November (limited weekend dates available).

NEWSFLASH my jewellery-making workshops are currently unavailable due to my studio flooding February 2020, Covid19 and health issues – I hope to be back teaching them in Autumn 2023

More jewellery making workshop info: www.bebeady.co.uk

jewellery making

Creating your own jewellery is a great hobby; enriching, absorbing and de-stressing, plus you get to wear your own customised and individual jewellery!

• great for personalised presents
• an ideal hobby to do together with friends or family
• easy to do anywhere, at home whilst watching television, sitting in the garden or even whilst on holiday
• cheap, you only need a few basic tools and materials
• a great way to up-cycle and reuse your unloved or broken jewellery items

I’m passionate about jewellery making and love teaching students how to make their own jewellery, accessories and tiaras.

workshops

Jewellery-making topics include bead stringing and beginners/beginners plus wire skills. Each of my bespoke day courses and taster workshops are themed to cover particular skills, designs and materials. They start with easier skills/designs and progress onto further skills/design variations.

I tailor and adapt my workshops depending on the skill level and progress of each student in your group, everyone benefits from some individual attention and guidance with their jewellery-making. My bespoke workshops are suitable for both students with no previous jewellery-making experience, as well as intermediate learners, with students able to choose easier or more difficult design variations.

teaching background

I’m a qualified teacher – initially, I taught design – and have enjoyed sharing my love of beads with my many students since 2005, helping them learn and develop their own jewellery-making skills. I taught jewellery-making classes in colleges, adult education, galleries, museums, community groups and family workshops.

Some of my teaching highlights have been linking my skills in design and jewellery making with my interest in ancient history and teaching Anglo-Saxon jewellery-making workshops for the British Library linked to their Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition and manuscripts, the Royal Armouries Museum Leeds as part of their ‘Warrior Treasure’ exhibition of the Staffordshire Hoard, for the Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition at Durham Cathedral, as well as The Forest of Bowland Landscapes workshops and The Harris Museum for the opening of their new gallery.

In 2017 after running my own bebeady jewellery-making classes for over 10 years, I decided to cut back on my teaching work to concentrate more on my own jewellery and glasswork. Now I just teach a few bespoke 1-1 or group workshops each year, plus the occasional jewellery-making masterclass inspired by historical artworks.

More info: www.bebeady.co.uk