Often in life it’s the genuine article, the purest and most natural, which we value most. All gemstones have a special month to shine, see ‘Birthstones’. So it’s worth exploring the joys of the unreal, underappreciated or synthetic of the jewellery world on Jewel day.   Let’s first take a look at the useful, synthetic, […]

Metal clay tutor Anna Campbell made her live TV debut for the London Jewellery School on Create and Craft TV last week. She gives us a behind the scenes look at what goes into making the show   Earlier this year our founder and director Jessica Rose appeared for the first time on the shopping […]

Just in case you missed our recent Facebook Post, the winners of the 2016 Jewellery Maker of the Year Competition have been announced! Huge congratulations to our winner, Vlad Zoldak! Vlad is officially the London Jeweller School Jewellery Maker of the Year 2016 for the stunning ‘Interstellar Ring’!!!  Our judging panel were utterly amazed by Vlad’s beautiful […]

Hello April! A new month means it is time for a new birthstone. And this month it is one of our favourite gemstones – Diamonds! Happy birth month to all you April babies! One of the most coveted gemstones in the world, most natural diamonds are between one to three billion years old. The word […]

At London Jewellery School we’ve been looking for more opportunities for our students to create mixed media jewellery which means we’ve been looking at wood jewellery quite a bit. So we thought we’d share a few ideas on how you might work in this beautiful natural material. The grain and colour of wood makes it […]

If the Oscars were all about statement necklaces in jewellery terms, the other home of movie glamour, the Cannes red carpet is definitely dominated by bold earring choices. While these mainly feature diamonds, platinum etc, from super-high-end jewelers such as official Cannes partner Chopard and de Grisogono, the shapes and styles may well inspire you […]

We have now completed the line-up for the Jewellery Talks Evening at London Jewellery School on Thursday 28 May from 6.30pm. Our third speaker will be bespoke jewellery artist Ellie Stickland. Ellie specialises in creating illustrations and technical drawings, as well as 3D models, of jewellery pieces, taking concepts for final designs and then works […]

It’s St George’s Day and, because he reputedly slayed one, here is a selection of dragon themed jewellery.          

We love gemstones at London Jewellery School so we have gone looking for some fabulous jewellery made using the February birthstones, which differ according to which category you look at. Traditional: Amethyst, Hyacinth and Pearl Modern: Amethyst Mystical: Bloodstone Ayurvedic: Amethyst This give you a good variety of options and you could think of combining […]

Agate is one of the birthstones for this month and unlike most birthstones it comes in a wide variety of colours which got us thinking that we should find out a bit more about this popular and varied gemstone. According to Geology.com an agate is “a translucent variety of microcrystalline quartz. It is used as […]