Skill explained

Jewellery makers manufacture or repair beautiful and durable fashion accessories using precious metals. They can make exclusive individual pieces, ready to be set with precious gemstones and used, or prototypes for mass production.

Required skills

Precision, attention to detail, professionalism and patience.

What the Competitors do at the Competition

The Competitor is judged on:

Make a piece of jewellery or several components in accordance with a technical drawing.

Apply jewellery skills and manufacturing techniques according to the project specification.

Use and carefully manage only the material supplied.

Apply correct health and safety procedures.



They will be judged on:

Similarity to the shapes proportions and functions of the designers concept.

Use of cutting and sawing techniques to shape and create settings for gemstones.

Use of solder joints to produce complex jewellery components and complete pieces.

Application of correct and uniform surface finish.

Compliance with the dimesions specified in the technical drawing.

Completion of each of the separate stages or separate tasks within time limits.