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Should you Sleep with your Earrings in? - HerbertandWilks Jewellery

Should you Sleep with your Earrings in?

Should you Sleep with your Earrings in? I've had a few repairs in the workshop lately ...there's a common theme around why they have turned up looking decidedly worse for...

Should you Sleep with your Earrings in?

Should you Sleep with your Earrings in? I've had a few repairs in the workshop lately ...there's a common theme around why they have turned up looking decidedly worse for...

Caring for your Gold Plated Jewellery - HerbertandWilks Jewellery

Caring for your Gold Plated Jewellery

Gold plated jewellery makes a great alternative to real gold jewellery. Over the past two years we have seen some large price rises in precious metals which can make even...

Caring for your Gold Plated Jewellery

Gold plated jewellery makes a great alternative to real gold jewellery. Over the past two years we have seen some large price rises in precious metals which can make even...

Carving out Wax ... - HerbertandWilks Jewellery

Carving out Wax ...

So, what is wax carving? In brief, it's the shaping of a piece of wax using tools such as saws, rotary tools, files, gravers and even knives. I use wax...

Carving out Wax ...

So, what is wax carving? In brief, it's the shaping of a piece of wax using tools such as saws, rotary tools, files, gravers and even knives. I use wax...

Custom Work - HerbertandWilks Jewellery

Custom Work

One of the great things about being a jeweller is the opportunity to do custom unique pieces. One of the techniques I like using is the Lost Wax Process. For...

Custom Work

One of the great things about being a jeweller is the opportunity to do custom unique pieces. One of the techniques I like using is the Lost Wax Process. For...

Simple Metal Texturing - HerbertandWilks Jewellery

Simple Metal Texturing

One of my favourite things to work on is experimenting with texture on the metal and how this changes the outward appearance of the metal. Take lace, dried organic material,...

Simple Metal Texturing

One of my favourite things to work on is experimenting with texture on the metal and how this changes the outward appearance of the metal. Take lace, dried organic material,...

Deceptively simple - the process of building the 'Wrapped' Collection - HerbertandWilks Jewellery

Deceptively simple - the process of building th...

Over the summer holidays I have been working on a new group of work around layers - these can include texture and gold leaf. Much of the time I have...

Deceptively simple - the process of building th...

Over the summer holidays I have been working on a new group of work around layers - these can include texture and gold leaf. Much of the time I have...