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12A623 - Hammered Copper and Silver BraceletMay 20Sunday, 1-4pm Deb Donaghue  Deb will lead you step by step in making a multi-strand hammered bracelet, mixing copper and silver for a warm and sparkling look. You will cut a myriad of strands the same length, hammer each one for a faceted effect, then round and connect each hammered wire to the end pieces shaped with terminals. Embellishments may be added to the terminal pieces. If there’s time, you can work on a matching necklace or earrings. All tools, equipment, and copper wire provided. Silver wire is provided for a bracelet, and more may be purchased from Deb for a necklace. Deb will also provide information about using liver of sulphur to patina the metal, but will not do this in class.
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Deb Donaghue has loved jewelry all her life and headed straight into metals work in her twenties. Later, while in India with Jeff for a couple of years, she started her extensive stash of intriguing stones, beads, and handmade pieces. Then life and business intervened, including The Brewery Creek Inn and Pub, so well known in Mineral Point. But a few years ago, when she could begin to breathe again, she took a class in making chain mail and was back in the jewelry-making world. She has taken three years of MATC art metalworking courses as well as studying on her own. She loves to work with tools and is at home with them, probably because her father was a tool and die maker. “I’m still searching for my own unique style,” she comments. “Art metalworking is great fun, and all techniques build on one another. One of her current interests is experimentation with the unusual technique called fold forming.
