Top 10 Best Hand Building classes, courses, learnings kits and gifts in the UK

Come along and try your hand-skills and creativity in this 2.5 hr session jewellery making class! Your teacher, Erika, is a professionally trained porcelain painter, ceramics designer-maker, working with Bone china and porcelain. Her range includes jewellery, fine tableware, objects, hand decorated with botanical paintings. Erika will teach you how to hand craft delicate jewellery pieces from simple to more elaborate shapes, and guide you through different methods of surface decorations and glazes. You will discover the beauty of this tactile material, and the fun techniques to create original pieces. Pendants, earrings, brooches, cufflinks. You can expect to learn techniques such as; hand cutting, surface decorating, glazing, whilst making a range of pieces, including; pendants, earrings, brooches, cufflinks. Create your own beautiful jewellery with guide of a professional. Perfect gift for Birthdays and Hen parties, interactive quality time spent together, creating beautiful jewellery. Your finished pieces will be ready to collect within a week after the class. All findings are allergy free (sterling silver, gold vermeil)

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, why not enjoy your breakfast out of your handmade Common Ground set? With this course, we hope each piece will bring you joy and help you start your day out right! During this one-off class, students will learn the basics of hand-building and go home with 2 pieces. In this two hour workshop, you will be guided through the pinch pot and coiling technique to make your breakfast set. This is a great introduction to hand-building with clay and is just enough time to gain an understanding of the material and make something you’ll be really proud of. What’s to Hand: You will be provided with clay for your set. You’ll be guided through the techniques. Once you have your shape ‘down to a T’ it's time to let your creativity run free! To ensure a relaxing and rewarding experience for all, the classes are kept to a minimum, 10 people per class. After the session, you will leave your pieces at the studio and they will be processed for you i.e glaze and fire in their kiln. Yout pieces will be dipped in a beautiful snow-white glaze. They should take about 3-4 weeks to process and you will be notified when they being shipped.