Rings You Can Play With!

The desire to encircle the fingers with symbols of love, loyalty, and power is an ancient tradition dating back thousands of years. Whether they are mementos of commitment to another or to oneself, rings are the most personal and coveted of adornments.

What could be more fun than a ring that is also a toy? In this workshop, participants will create a unique, kinetic ring with a rotating or reversible bezel, inspired by ancient Egyptian and Roman rings. In antiquity these rings were used as seals or given as gifts to commemorate historic events.

In addition to learning the fabrication process and mechanical construction for the moving parts, learn different surface design techniques and significantly up your soldering skills

Forming and fabricating wire granulation for 3D structures
One-of-a-kind, reusable, intaglio roller printing plates to create your own roller printed patterns
Stone settings on textured surfaces
Shank twisting in the style of ancient Greek jewelry
Fusing and adjusting gold bezels
Soldering gold to silver without making a mess

What Others Have to Say

What makes Victoria’s Courses So Special

Achieve levels of skill that you didn’t know you had

Victoria’s workshops are presented in a clear and engaging manner that is both highly informative and entertaining. As students, our skill-set was dramatically improved during the course of a workshop. We were able to put the techniques we learned to immediate use, and made the cost of the workshop back on the first piece we sold.

John and Corliss Rose

2Roses

In Japan, Victoria would be considered a national treasure…

Victoria teaches techniques used for millennia to create many of the great works of art one can see in museums. She has found many tricks that streamline and improve the processes, and she uses them to make strikingly contemporary pieces rooted in the ancient world.u003cbru003e Students are given a series of challenges and opportunities to grow their own inner voices and are encouraged to create works unique to them, at their levels of ability.u003cbru003eThe number of places one can learn these skills in the US can be counted conveniently on one’s thumbs. In Japan, Victoria would be considered a national treasure, and she would be funded to pass these skills on to the next generation.

Al Boyers

Metalsmith

Expect a lot of ‘ah-HA!!’ moments will be had

You wont be disappointed with this class, and like me, I expect a lot of ‘ah-HA!!’ moments will be had! Enjoy!

Joan Geisler

Artist

Cake II, showing the top side of the Rotating Bezel Ring

Cake II, showing the top and side of the Rotating Bezel Ring

Cake II, reverse side of the Rotating Bezel Ring

Cake II detail of Rotating Bezel Ring - Victoria Lansford

Intaglio Style Roller Printing — Designing and Fabricating the Ring Top’s Parts

This course employs the new ‘flipped’ online learning method.

Work at your own pace with super detailed video demos.
Get your questions answered daily by Victoria via the classroom dashboard.
Come together for 2 live Q&A coaching sessions via Zoom. (scroll down for details & dates)
Relax, breathe, and learn with 6 weeks total access to all course content.
This is an intermediate level class. Students should have experience fabricating and soldering with a torch.