熟悉AIVA的朋友都知道，大师班是AIVA最重磅也是最抢手的课程，新年伊始，我们给大家带来一个超级好消息，今年的第一个大师班：意大利花丝工作坊Contemporary Filigree Workshop，开放报名啦！！

(There is an English version introduction below.)

在3天的密集课程里，你将全方位地感受古老的首饰制作技术之一：花丝技巧，一步一步地学习每一个制作过程，从扭转丝线的方法开始，你会认识到这门古老的技艺充满着无穷无尽的创作可能性。在导师Valentina Caprini的指导下，每位学员都将制作一件自己的花丝作品。以及在学习传统技术的同时，每一位学员将能根据自己的创作方式塑造出自己的审美意识，启发实际练习与创作活动，在课程结束后学员能独立创作带有个人风格的花丝作品。

Valentina Caprini

首饰制作者、首饰导师

1982年出身于意大利维罗纳，现生活在佛罗伦萨。

Valentina研究生毕业于博洛尼亚大学与阿基米亚当代首饰学院，本科毕业于著名的Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School；师从著名的艺术家PeterBauhuis与Ruudt Peters。

因为来自一个女装剪裁的家庭，Valentina一直致力于将自己对首饰领域的专业技术与织物相结合。她曾自由地编织上千米的水溶性线去制作一个巨大的首饰（“Pink Roots”系列2017年在米兰的Triennale博物馆展出）；她也曾将融化的手工织物融入贵金属之中。她更是钻研古老的花丝技巧，用纯金纯银的线编织出花样繁复的有机造型，与刺绣相结合，也可以通过金属加工的技巧转化成如同编制而成的首饰。如今，她作为一名独立首饰制作者活跃在世界各地，如美国、加拿大、荷兰、德国、意大利与西班牙。她还在Officine Nora那个当年她自己工作室起步的共享首饰空间指导基础金工与花丝课程；Valentina还执教于佛罗伦萨的International Institute Lorenzo dei Medici School。

导师作品欣赏

Valentina's Portfolio

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Brooches//SIlver//2014

Make Me Fly

Earrings // Silver // 2015

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Ring // Gold, Silver // 2017

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Rings//SIlver,Gold//2014

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Earrings// Oxidized Silver //2013

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Earrings// Gold // 2014

Hybrid

Gilet- Necklaces // Textile,Silver Filigree // 2015

Valentina的学生作品欣赏

Studens' work

Valentina将带来她自己整理储备的“当代花丝技艺视觉图示”和参与课程的学员分享，便于大家认识不同形状与结构的花丝技法，图示中她试用自己整理的标识语言来帮助大家记忆花丝技术的细节工艺。她也欢迎大家在上课的过程中任意拍照或录制短视频来记录自己的学习内容。并且会来带意大利花丝工艺的相关书籍与目录为学员们提供更详细的视觉学习资料。

课程内容包括传统的花丝技法，不同的备料方式以及制作特殊结构，首饰辅件的方法。

在为期3天的工作坊期间，Valentina还会帮助每位学员实现自己的设计方案，调整设计款式。所以在课程完成时大家都会带着自己制作的美美的花丝首饰回家啦！

Contemporary Filigree Workshop

from Valentina Caprini

VALENTINA CAPRINI

1982, Verona, Italy

Valentina Caprini (Verona, 1982) is a contemporary jewellery maker and teacher based in Florence.

After a Master Degree in Semiology, she completed in 2012 her BFA at the renowed Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery Schoolin Florence, where she was tutored by international artists like Peter Bauhuisand Ruudt Peters.

Her studies of conceptual jewellerycontinued with a course exchange in 2013 at the Estonian Academy of Arts,mentored by Tanel Veenre.

Once back in Italy, she stabilized her studio in the first co-working space for jewellery makers in Italy, Officine Nora.

Coming from a family with a strong femininetailoring tradition, Valentina wanted to bring this passionate root into her jewellery world, finding experimental ways to connect textile and metal work.

IMPORTANT EXHIBITIONS

 May 2017

LIGHT MATTERS- Dialogue between jewelleryand digital lighting, Berlin (Germany)

April 2017

LIGHT MATTERS- Dialogue between jewelleryand digital lighting, SILVER FESTIVAL 2017, Legnica (Poland)

March 2017

LIGHT MATTERS- Dialogue between jewelleryand digital lighting, MUNICH JEWELLERY WEEK 2017, Munich (Germany)

April 2016- February 2017

TRIENNALE DESIGN MUSEUM (Milan)- W. WOMENIN ITALIAN DESIGN with “Jewellery is Therapy” Collection April 2016 FUORISALONEDI MILANO

2013

“WITH LOVE FROM ITALY”, CollectiveExhibition, Galerie Idsardi (Netherlands)

“MORE THAN GOLD” Exhibition with 1x1Collective, Studio Huddle, Toronto (Canada)

About the workshop:

In the three days of this intensive course,you will be able to immerse yourself in the world of one of the most ancient techniques in jewellery, learning step by step every phase to realize a Filigree jewellery piece.

Time of the workshop: 

4-6 April 2018 (TheQingming holidays)

9:00 to 17:00/18:00

Course Duration:

Students with previous experience in jewellery making: 3 days. (7 hours per day) (the students must know how to cut, solder and hammer the metal)

Students without any previous experience: 3days (8 hours per day) ( the extra hours are neessary during the course to have more time to go through the basics of metal skills)

Number of students: maximum 10 students

Price of the workshop: 

3 days 7 hours/ day  3500RMB

3 days 8 hours/ day  4000RMB

Aim of the course: 

Every student, once the course is finished, will be independent in the process of the Filigree art. All the essential steps to create a finished Filigree jewel will be shown during the course, from the making of the wire to the finishing of the final piece. In addition to the teaching of the traditional technique, there will be a part dedicated to the different kinds of multiple wires interlacing, useful to create decorative parts and solutions in the Filigree jewellery. Valentina has personally invented a special language in order to easily remember all the multiple combination of the wires.

What is more she will personally follow each student during his/her creative approach, focusing on the design and aesthetic of the final project.

At the end of the intensive course, each student will have created and realized a finished silver Filigree piece of jewellery, unique and ready to wear.

Provided Material: 

A Filigree Kit will beprovided for each student,

The cost of the filigree kit is 60$

It includes:

Pure silver wire to make the Filigree wire:4g

Filigree pure silver wire ready made: 8g

Flat silver 925 wires of 0.5 and 0.7mm thickness to make the Filigree structure:6 g

Copper and brass wire of different thicknesses for the interlacing exercises

Silver powder already mixed with boraxnecessary to solder the Filigree pieces

Filigree handmade pliers: the use of the pliers is free during the course. After the course, the pliers will be available for sale.

Valentina will bring a Visual Map of the course, where the students will notice the different kinds of Filigree shapes and structures, the symbolic language of the interlaced wires and many other little details of the Filigree technique. All the students are welcomed to take pictures and video of every image and demonstration provided by the teacher. Valentina will bring filigree originalbooks and catalogue about the Italian filigree to provide to the students visual knowledge and inspiration about possible designs for their pieces.

Starting from the twisting technique of metal wires, you will discover the endless possibilities of weaving, and intertwining and filling in the wire.

Under the guidance of the teacher, every student will have the possibility to create a wearable piece working the silverwith special hand-made pliers, in order to ‘weave’ an unique jewel, interlacing a centuries-old technique with your own unique hand trait.

What is more the knowledge of the traditional technique, every student will be followed personally through a creative process, focused on empowering each unique artistic language. Inspiring exerciseand imaginative activities will help the students to develop original ideas in the making of a contemporary and unusual Filigree piece of jewellery.

DAY 1

COURSE INTRODUCTION (Presentation of the 4days course) FILIGREE HISTORY (Power Point)

HOW TO MAKE the Filigree Wire

EXPERIMENTATION OF WIRE INTERLACING (PureSilver, Copper, Brass)

POSSIBILITIES AND USES of the interlaced wires: lamination, hammering, soldering, decoration

HOW TO WEAVE the Filigree wire with special handmade pliers into different shapes

DAY 2

HOW TO MAKE the FILIGREE STRUCTURE with flat wires

HOW TO INSERT the Filigree elements

POWDER SOLDERING: how to make it and use it

 FILIGREE EXERCIZE: creation of an “openback” small filigree piece

 PERSONAL PROJECT: one to one discussion with the teacher and assignment of creative exercise

DAY 3

PERSONAL PROJECT’S STRUCTURE: how to translate it from the visionary aspect to the actual jewel

CREATING TRADITIONAL FILIGREE ELEMENTS and experimentation in the making of new ones

INIDIVIDUAL help, support, advises andimprovements to each student’s project 

TRANSFORMING AND FINISHING the Filigree piece into a wearable piece of jewellery.

How to apply this workshop: 

please leave your “ name+ phone number+ filigree workshop” under this news

or call us 400-086-3699 (during Monday to Friday 9:00 -18:00)

Italian Filigree Techniques

The first finds of Filigree jewellery can be traced back in 2.500 B.C. in the mythical city of Troy and in the city of Ur, ancient capital of the Sumerians.In ornaments recovered from Phoeniciansites, such as Cyprus and Sardinia, patterns of gold wire are laid down with great delicacy on a gold background. It is said that the art was advanced to an higher perfection int the Greek and Etruscan Filigree from the 6th to the 3rd centuries B.C. The Etruscan population lived in Etruria, a region of Central Italy, located in an area that covered part of what are now Tuscany, Lazio and Umbria.

Still nowadays it is unknown how this ancient artisans could make such thin wires, and the most plausible hypothesisis that they used a very similar die plate that it is used by modern jewellers.The process of the Filigree technique has not been changed until today: thecurrent way of working the metal wires has a history 5,000 year long.

Today the most active place for this ancient art in Italy is Campo Ligure, a little and beautiful village in the north of Genova. It is situated on the Ligure Sea side, where the Filigree arrived around the year 1000 thanks to the relationships that the Maritime Republics had with the East through the Crusades.

Valentina has learned this ancient art in Campo Ligure's old workshops , where the machines for the the making of the Filigree wire date back 150 years and the production follows the slow rhythm ofthe handmade work.

She combines the traditional way of working with unique and personal designs, creating not only jewellery, but also hybrids between jewellery and clothes, in which the hand- woven Filigree is embroideredon handmade clothing.