Online Jewelry Making Classes
17 online jewelry making and metalsmithing classes you can take from home, including courses Corkie has taken herself.
Recommended Online Classes
“I have personally taken these courses and think they are fabulous!” says Corkie
Lucy Walker's Metalsmith Academy is perfect for beginners and intermediate jewelers alike. New to metalsmithing? Classes teach the fundamentals with no experience needed. Ready to level up? Go beyond the basics with advanced classes like bead setting, flush setting, and creating bezels for fancy shaped stones. You'll learn from great videos and helpful PDFs, stay motivated with fun challenges, and connect with a supportive community of jewelers along the way.
Learn from Emilie Shapiro, an author and educator with over 20 years of jewelry making experience and a successful wholesale and retail jewelry business. She offers beginner and intermediate lost wax classes with her unique style and approach, plus business classes. No experience needed!
Learn from Sandy of Wax Carvers, a wax carving teacher in the Netherlands whose online classes you can watch as often as you like, wherever you are in the world. She teaches everything from stacking rings and charms to gemstone bezels and animal carvings, with beginner, intermediate, and advanced classes in both hard and soft wax. You don't need a studio full of specialized tools to get started, since the classes use basic tools most jewelers already have. Expect traditional techniques with a fun twist!
Community-submitted listings. The classes below have no direct affiliation with Metalsmith Society. These are suggestions from the community, not personal recommendations.
More Online Classes
Be A Maker School
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Self-paced western trades courses, including silversmithing and engraving (Scottish scrolls, bezel setting), plus leather, rawhide braiding, and a business of making course. Includes a private community and live Q&As. Enrollment is only open during set windows a few times a year.
Crushworthy Jewelry Courses by Shannon Bundschuh
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Self-paced metalsmithing courses from jeweler Shannon Bundschuh (@carry.a.torch), with lifetime access. Current courses focus on making statement jewelry with added texture and detail, including a statement ring with a detailed band (Wild Horse Ring) and lightweight, multi-tiered statement earrings (Tiers For Ears). New courses are released periodically.
Intaglio Arts
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Self-paced video courses in gemstone carving (intaglio): Introduction to Reverse Intaglio, a beginner-friendly course, and Intermediate Gemstone Carving, where you carve an intaglio lion.
Jewellers Academy
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UK-based courses on silver jewelry making for beginners and intermediates, wax carving, metal clay, polishing and finishing, and the business side of jewelry, including pricing. Many courses are self-paced, while some run on set start dates. Several free mini courses are available.
Jewellery Training Solutions
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Australian online subscription library teaching traditional jewelry making skills, created by Peter Keep with guest experts. Courses run from beginner to professional level and cover projects like rings, chains, earrings, pendants, bangles, and clasps, plus stone setting, design, and a structured apprentice training plan. A few free courses are available.
Kent Raible Online Classes
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Learn from Kent Raible, a master goldsmith with 50 years of experience. His self-paced online courses cover jewelry fabrication, including bezel setting, tubes for hinges, bezels, and opening bales, plus advanced ring fabrication and chain weaving. He also offers a four-month online mentored program, Unveil Your Mastery, each January, and in-person 18k gold granulation and fabrication workshops at his studio in Washington state.
Metalwerx
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Virtual workshops from a Massachusetts jewelry school, offered on specific dates and taught by guest instructors. Most are short, one- to two-session classes, many demo-focused, on specialty techniques like wax carving, mosaic inlay, torch fusing, Japanese metal inlay (zogan), keum-boo and reticulation, enameling, chain making, and efficient studio production.
Richard Salley Online Courses
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Self-paced, project-based video courses from jeweler Richard Salley, with real-time videos of each piece being made. Courses include hinge classes, easy inlay, Enameling 101, and other specialty offerings like etching and mechanical jewelry projects.
Sam Alfano Hand Engraving Classes
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Downloadable, self-paced hand engraving videos from Sam Alfano, a certified Master Engraver and GRS engraving instructor. Classes include modern hand engraving, lettering techniques (engraver’s script, Roman, ribbon cut monograms, and leaf script), jewelry and ring engraving, advanced scrollwork, drawing scrolls, and the deep relief sculpting master class with a practice design to follow along with. You can also learn to design for engraving in Procreate on the iPad.
Sedona Rose Studio
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Self-paced video classes from Sedona Rose Studio. Current classes are Learn to Silversmith On a Budget, a beginner step-by-step video series, and a technique mini class on chip inlay.
Sharon Z Courses
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Self-paced, pre-recorded courses on flush setting, wax carving (hand carving and machine techniques), and pricing your jewelry.
Silvera Jewelry School
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Online classes offered on specific dates from a Berkeley school, covering fabrication, casting, wax carving, stone setting, enameling, filigree, metal clay, CAD, and jewelry business.
The Microsetting Academy
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One-year membership to self-paced diamond microsetting video training from Ian Barnard. The membership includes: tool prep and graver sharpening, castle setting, fishtail, pavé (including a hand engraving section), prong, channel, and bezel setting, plus troubleshooting videos and downloadable bench resources. Some bench experience is recommended.
Virtually Evercrafting
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Live, interactive online craft classes offered on specific dates, where you can engage with instructors in real time, in a format designed to feel like a face-to-face class. Classes cover metalwork (hot and cold), metal clay, wire work, chain maille, kumihimo, beadwork, glass working, and fiber arts, and can be browsed by technique, instructor, or skill level.
