Create your own sterling silver jewellery. Join Dunedin jeweller Zantedeschia Robini, a professional with over 20 years of experience, in this hands-on lost Mitsuro Hikime jewellery making workshop.

Mitsuro Hikime roughly translates to honey (mitsu) wax (ro) drawing (hiki) texture (me).

Mitsuro Hikime is a unique blended wax, an ancient art form, dating back more than 1300 years in Japan. It was mostly used in sculpture, later enjoyed by jewellery artists and jewellery lovers in some parts of Japan.

Lost wax casting is a well-known process in the jewelry industry, but Mitsuro Hikime is unique because it must be warmed slowly with your hands to become malleable. After pulling, stretching, and folding the wax into itself, it forms unique striations. 

Create your own sterling silver jewellery. Join Dunedin jeweller Zantedeschia Robini, a professional with over 20 years of experience, in this hands-on lost wax jewellery making workshop.

You will design and carve your piece in wax, set it with sparkling gemstones, and after the workshop your wax model will be professionally cast in silver, polished, and delivered to you in a gift box– ready to wear or gift.

This is a practical paint-making course that covers the technical aspects of making a watercolour paint, the practical and cultural considerations of pigments and testing your paint’s characteristics. Be prepared to mull your own paint by hand!

This is a full day course where you make your own paint and also learn techniques to prepare your own historic mineral and plant pigments. 

At the end of the day you’ll:

- Have a travel tin of four hand-mulled watercolour paints

- Be able to adapt your watercolour binder to suit different pigments

- Learn to create and prepare your own pigments from minerals and plants

You will be working with soy based etching inks on recycled tetra pak plate to produce intaglio prints (like drypoint with a twist). They will be hand printed by you on a small etching press. This is a magical way to turn your recycling into something beautiful. 

The etching press is small, the plates we are making the image on are 100 x 150mm. However this will mean you can likely make more than one image. It is all about experimenting and learning, so really don’t feel like you need to come with anything other than curiosity! 

Welcome to the fun of hand carved stamps! 

Create your own unique stamps with Kyla and explore options for printing these relief blocks on various paper, cards and tags.

In this 3 hour class you will learn how to transfer your design, what kind of materials you can use, tool selection, how to carve a relief stamp and ways to print these unique and infinitely useful little creations. 

You will also learn mounting options, explore different inks and printing methods including the Woodzilla relief press. You will learn techniques for printing at home.