Cold Connections I - Dolores Osborne-Hensley

Cold Connections I - Dolores Osborne-Hensley

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7/27/2025-8/1/2025
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$200.00

Cold Connections I - Dolores Osborne-Hensley

Class | Available

COLD CONNECTIONS I

INSTRUCTOR:  DOLORES OSBORNE-HENSLEY

 

This class for beginners will cover basic skills of working with base metals (copper, brass, titanium, and nickel), by cutting, sawing (metal sheers and hand-saw), filing (hand-files and dremel tools) while learning to connect two or more pieces of metal without heat. We will cover riveting (basic and telescoping), tab settings (metal, cabochons and/or fossils), metal-on-metal layering, stone setting with tabs, form-folding, and more. We will use the hand-held torch to flame color copper and titanium, prior to cold connecting them to other metals.  We have several projects planned that will encompass numerous aspects of cold connections that you can use for more projects at home.  Students will also have plenty of time to develop skills and create their own designs. Class fee includes all metal, wire, copper washers, steam-punk elements, cords, leather cords, findings and rivets needed to complete class projects, plus an accent stone, chains, and ear wires. In this class, students will produce creative jewelry pieces and learn the basics for a strong foundation to pursue other lapidary arts. The school has basic tool kits for student use, and I will have tools for sale if you are interested.

 

Class Fee:  $175

Estimated Material Cost:  $0 to $100

Prerequisite:  None

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Osborne-Hensley, Dolores
Dolores Osborne-Hensley

Dolores is an Air Force veteran, who traveled around the world, collecting sea glass, shells, stones, fossils, and semi-precious stones just waiting to be incorporated into wearable creations. After retiring from the armed forces, she opened The Wild Bead and Boutique, in Montgomery, Alabama, where she taught beading, embroidery beading, jewelry, and cold connections. Her first class at William Holland was cold connections with Kim St. Jean, where her love of manipulating metals into creative wearable art began. She is self-taught artist, but classes at William Holland have helped her advance her creations to a higher level. Dolores loves meeting and nurturing other artists and was a 12-year active member of the Montgomery Gem and Mineral Society and held the role of Vice President, Newsletter Editor, and Annual Gem and Mineral Show Manager, but recently transferred her membership to the Alabama Mineral and Lapidary Society, in Birmingham, Alabama to explore more rock digs, classes and meet other rock lovers. Dolores is a member of the Pike Road, Alabama Art Guild and teaches cold connection classes to the public and art guild members. Her other lapidary passions consist of rock hounding, cutting semi-precious stone slabs and shaping cabochons.