Jewellery Fabrication

Paper Code: 
24CJWT602
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
120.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • Understand the skills that how to work with machines and use different types of hand tools on well-equipped work benches.
  • Provide the knowledge and skills to make jewellery of excellent quality
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24CJWT 602

 
 
 

Jewellery Fabrication

CO117: create jewellery through their learning journey by mastering the art of soldering, which involves joining fabricated parts through intermediary metal alloy fusion, thus enabling them into wearable jewellery pieces  with a focus on precision and craftsmanship.

CO118: Compile comprehensive practical records detailing plans related to jewellery design across diverse institutional settings and cultivate verbal communication skills to converse effectively with examiners.

CO119: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

 

Approach in teaching: Interactive Practical Sessions , Theme board  , Demonstrations ,Giving tasks, Field practical , inspiration board,  Workshop ,  Laboratory industry visits,  Group and Team work

Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Effective, Product and Design development

 

 

 

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

120.00

        Rolling techniques                                                                            

  • Rolling sheet
  • Rolling wire
  • Rolling defects
  • Cutting sheet metals                                                            
  • Dividing metal from mass by shearing
  • Bending sheet metals                                                                                               
  • Manual banding
  • Tools banding
  • Banding with deformation
  • Banding without deformation
  • Doming

    Sawing                                                                                           

  • Serving or contour shaping metal by gradual groove removal
  • Sawing Practice
  • Sawing problems & solutions 

Filing                                                                                                 

  • Removing metal by attrition 
  • Use of filing
  • Type of Filing
  • Straight flat filing
  • Curve filing
  • Shape filing
  • Drawing filing

 Wire drawing                                                                                              

  • Use of draw plate
  • Wire manufacturing by hand
  • Twisted wire

   Tubing                                                                                                        

  • Hollow
  • Uniform
  • Seamless
  • Seamed

  Soldering                                                                                                     

  • Joining fabricated parts by intermediary metal alloy fusion
  • Design transfer to metal                                                                                 
  • Material & method

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Untracht, O. (2011). Jewellery concepts & technology. Doubleday.
  • Pinton, D. (2009). Jewellery Technology.
  • Untracht, O. (2010). Metal techniques for craftsmen Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
  • Miller, J.(2009). The work of Master Goldsmith: A Unique Collection. Robert Hale.

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
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