Learn to make your own textures from pictures, print outs and much more!

This is a great class where our expert tutor Julia Rai will guide you through a range of processes for making your own texture tiles and plates. Perfect for use with metal clay, polymer clay and many areas of jewellery making.

When you first start working with metal clay and polymer, commercial texture tiles are a great place to start but as you progress, being able to make your own textures can really add a new dimension to your designs and opens up a whole new way of working.

In this intensive day class you will learn a range of techniques for making textures including Photo Polymer Plates (PPP) and the Tear Away Technique. Two key techiques for making textures that will set you well on your way to creating a new range of texture plates to set your jewellery appart from the rest.

The Photo Polymer Plates allow you to take black and white line designs and create unique deep texture plates for your metal clay. The 'tear away' technique allows you to make low relief texture sheets which are ideal for use with Keum-Bo.

Please note that no metal clay or jewellery pieces will be produced on this course as we will be using the whole day to focus on texture making.

The cost of this workshop includes a Photo Polymer Plate kit. The tutor will supply black and white images in all formats for you to practice these processes but if you’d like to bring your own images, please do. For Photo Polymer Plates, dense black images printed onto transparent acetates are required. For the tear away technique, your images printed onto A4 sheets will be copied using a special photocopier. To get copies of your own designs, the tutor will charge £1 per A4 sheet so make sure you fill the sheet with designs.