Pinwheel Flower Pendant

This class continues my series on Keum  Boo, an ancient Korean technique  that literally translates as “attached  gold”. In the first class I taught you how the technique works and kept the design fairly simple so that we could concentrate on process  of attaching the gold. In this class I will teach you how to use leftover pieces of foil and add a rolling mill texture to create a simple but lovely piece of  jewellery. This design could easily be adapted to create earrings  instead - or as well!

Keum Boo bonds  24k gold and fine silver together, with no solder  involved, just heat  and pressure. It is a strong permanent bond, hundreds of times thicker than gold plating. As you can see from the  class project a little gold goes a long way, making this a great way of adding the richness of gold to your jewellery without breaking the bank. It is a magical  technique, and one that I never tire of teaching! I love the look on my students’ faces when they realise that their gold  design has bonded beautifully onto the silver.

I have listed this as an intermediate class as previous experience of Keum Boo and soldering are needed.

An understanding of the information in the first class in this series, the Golden Butterfly Pendant class, is useful, and links to all of the classes in the Art of Keum Boo series so far are below: