Steel has wonderful qualities for creating jewelry: it’s durable, readily available, beautiful when blackened, and best of all, inexpensive! In this workshop we will focus on creating finger rings in the morning and fabricating a cabochon pendant in the afternoon. You will learn how to manipulate this sturdy metal in several ways including coiling, netting and wrapping. We will blacken and seal our creations at the end of the day to prevent rusting - which is about the only downside to this wonderful metal.

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