The art of making fine jewellery from home
Our amazing silver clay aiding you in creating beautiful homemade fine silver jewellery.
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Watch the biginners video here
I make a heart earing with our Sliver Jewellers Clay. In this beginners guide from start to finnish, I try to not use any special tools from our tool kit which you can find on the Products page
Discover simple silver clay jewellery ideas
School Classes
Silver Metal clay is perfect for school lessons or after-school clubs our clay is great for children to create and build a piece of jewellery from scratch, teaching youngsters to follow our silver metal clay tutorials and become more creative.
Hobbies
Our Silver Metal Clay allows you to create pieces of jewellery from scratch so anything you imagine is possible. It is fun and easy with opportunities to progress and produce more complex jewellery, Perfect as an activity to do in your spare time.
Gifts
When creating silver metal clay jewellery, you are making a unique piece of silver great as gifts to family and friends.
Business
Become a silver metal clay expert and make and sell your silver clay jewellery creations on Etsy, eBay, Amazon or Facebook. An excellent opportunity for extra income.
School Classes
Silver Metal clay is perfect for school lessons or after-school clubs our clay is great for children to create and build a piece of jewellery from scratch, teaching youngsters to follow our silver metal clay tutorials and become more creative.
Hobbies
Our Silver Metal Clay allows you to create pieces of jewellery from scratch so anything you imagine is possible. It is fun and easy with opportunities to progress and produce more complex jewellery, Perfect as an activity to do in your spare time.
Gifts
When creating silver metal clay jewellery, you are making a unique piece of silver great as gifts to family and friends.
Business
Become a silver metal clay expert and make and sell your silver clay jewellery creations on Etsy, eBay, Amazon or Facebook. An excellent opportunity for extra income.
About us
Hi Eamonn here founder of Jewellers clay
I first got interested in Precious Metal clay a few years ago when my sister introduced me to it, she was a crafter, she hates being called a crafter, she was quite inventive in her designs and it fascinated me when I saw her turn a lump of clay into a piece of fine silver jewellery, right before my eyes.
So, it was mulling over in my head for some time, I wanted to know how to make this clay.
My background was in chemistry and after some research I found a way to make some clay. the trick is to make very fine particles, the binder to make it stick together like clay was simpler it’s called Carboxy Methyl Cellulose, scientists like long words that’s why we’re unbeatable at scrabble.
Anyway, I had many attempts at making the metal clay, but I had a big problem, the clay, when fired, would never come out smooth no matter how much I sanded and burnished it. I couldn’t sell an inferior product.
I gave up a few times over a couple of years but always tried again when I thought about what the problem might be.
Finally, I was reading an article about a method for recovering silver from photographic waste solutions. The article mentioned in passing a last step for cleaning impurities in the silver powder. I tried this process on my clay and sure enough, it worked to produce amazing clay. I was over the moon.
So with our silver metal clay, making yourself fine silver jewellery is easier than you think. From buying our product to being proud of custom-made jewellery, you finished at your home, all in easy steps. We have a beginner’s video to guide you through the process.
If you’re like me it will amaze you when a piece of clay you made, fired with a blowtorch, gas hob or kiln, ends up a piece of fine silver jewellery. Call it a modern form of alchemy. You will be surprised how easy it is and how few basic tools you need to get started.
What is Silver Metal Clay?
It feels just like clay that can be formed into any shape.
The clay is made of only 4 components very fine silver particles, so fine it would take many particles to make the size of a sand grain.
Also Binder to make it stick together like clay
And water containing some anti drying chemical which makes the clay workable for a long time.
Once dried to remove water, heated with a flame or in a kiln to burn away everything else leaving pure silver behind.
The silver particles fuse together, forming solid fine silver grade 999 fineness.
The process happens below the melting point of the silver, making it easy to do at home., this is called sintering.
It does shrink due to the particles fusing together about 10 to 15 percent is usual.
Every batch of our jeweller’s clay silver is checked for shrinkage and recorded on the pack.
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Silver metal clay techniques that will make your designs amazing
Free Style
Many people go this way just shaping the clay freehand. This can produce organic designs sometimes going with “mistakes” that turn out to be design masterpieces that are definitely one of a kind.
or maybe you are the precise type making careful choices. Geometric shapes of all kinds are possible with a bit of practice.
Using Molds
If you wanted to reproduce an object you like in silver metal clay so you can wear it with pride. Moulds might be the thing you need. Mould material can be formed over the object you want to reproduce. When cured the flexible mould is peeled away from the object forming a perfect copy in reverse showing every detail of the original.
Then fill it with the clay and let that dry then carefully peal the mold from the dried clay for a perfect replica that you can fire in the normal way.
Enamelling
If you really want to get creative enamelling on silver metal clay will really make your jewellery pop.
Enamel is powdered glass in many colours. The process involves melting the powdered glass, on the previously fired silver clay. Sift or pour the enamel to fill any low parts of your design or cover the entire surface. The silver will show through the enamel.
The enamel is melted in a kiln or with a torch at about 750 degrees centigrade for a few minutes.
Gold plating
Did you know you can gold plate silver metal clay to highlight part of the design or an entire piece?
Gold paste made by Art Clay can be brushed onto previously fired silver metal clay then fired again, as you would the metal clay.
This is real 22karat gold and will accent your jewellery beautifully.
Here at jewellers clay we are working on a gold plating solution that you brush on to a fired piece. It will be on this site when the formula is right.