Needle felting is a technique that involves sculpting wool fibres using a special needle. Learning how to needle-felt beads opens up a realm of opportunities when creating new jewellery, home furnishings and embellishments. This guide will take you through the steps required to needle felt a bead, which will give you the ability to turn […]
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In today’s digitally-driven world, learning a new skill has never been more accessible. The realm of jewellery making offers a shimmering canvas for creative expression. Thanks to platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Zoom and TikTok, the journey of mastering this craft has been transformed into an interactive and engaging experience. Youtube With its huge collection of
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A colour wheel is a simple but powerful tool for an artist. Learning how to use the colour wheel effectively can boost your colour coordination, create contrast and even set a specific mood and style. The traditional colour wheel was created back in the 18th century and is made up of the three primary colours;
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We are lucky to have such a huge team of specialist tutors that each bring different expertise to Riverside. Theย team sat down with talented jewellery making tutor, Heidi Summers to find out more aboutย What is your specialist area of jewellery making and how long have you been doing this? Jewellery making as a
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Hello Beautiful Beaders, Happy new year my lovelies and welcome to 2020! Now that the festive season is finally over we can start looking forward to twelve more shiny months of beading. This year already looks exciting with a gazillion new jewellery trends hot off the catwalks. Here’s my annual run down of the top
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Hello Beautiful Beaders, I’ve just got back from the printers with my new workshop schedule 2020. It seems scary to be saying 2020 (the FUTURE! Lol), this year has just flown past. The new workshop schedule is very exciting! There are so many new and fabulous classes to attend. I’m going to be very poor
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