Advanced Gems & Jewellery Course

This advanced training course (ATC) “Gems & Jewellery: History, Identification and Important Trends” is unique in that it combines the history and significance of gems in historic and modern jewellery. You will learn about the different uses of gems, and how these link with different periods of jewellery. Through this approach you will learn about criteria to identify jewellery with gems, and gain insight into possible criteria for valuation. This course is taught in small groups with lectures about the jewellery and gemstone history and topics on, for example, materials, techniques and value.  Much of the afternoon is dedicated to practical workshops handling jewellery. . Originally set up in part by Vanessa Cron (@jewelsandthegang), founder of Research Jewel, it is now taught in collaboration with jewellery historian Kathia Pinckernelle. The jewellery history lectures will be mostly image-based, travelling through time from pre-historic beginnings to contemporary jewellery.