Mitsuro Hikime for Jewellers

- BRAND NEW ONLINE COURSE -

Learn the ancient Japanese wax technique of Misturo Hikime with expert Lorna Romanenghi

In this exciting an in-depth masterclass you will learn to create the wax yourself, explore your own unique designs with the wax, explore how to prepare pieces for stone setting, combining multiple pieces…

Create Rings, pendants, Stone Set pieces and much more

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What is Mitsuro Hikime?

It is an ancient Japanese wax combining beeswax, pine resin and paraffin wax. It is used in jewellery to create beautiful striations through a unique technique of pulling the wax and shaping it to form natural and organic structures.

What iS COVERED IN THE COURSE?

You will learn to make the Mitsuro Wax

Creating your own wax is a key part of the process and working with fresh wax will give you better results

The pulling technique and creating lines

Learning to work with the wax, temperature control, the pulling technique to create textured lines of wax

Creating Rings and Shapes with the wax

Once the lines are formed you can begin shaping them into our own unique designs for rings or other elements

Stone Setting & Combining Waxes

There is so much you can do once you have mastered the basics. We look at how you can prep for stone setting and combining Mitsuro with hard waxes.

Exploring Shapes: Leaves and Penants

We take a deeper look into exploring shapes you can make with the wax including pendants and leaves

Cleaning up Castings, Keumboo & Finishings

Cleaning up can take just as long as creating a piece so we go into detail on how to clean up mitsuro pieces while keeping the patterns, form and detail. As well as adding gold using keumboo and black using patina.

Plus tons of tips and troubleshooting

With over 20 videos there is so much covered in this course, you will have an in-depth knowledge of mitsuro and how you can use it to create your own pieces and apply to your unique body of work.

Meet Lorna Romanenghi

Lorna is fine jeweller, goldsmith and tutor, based in her home studio in rural Italy who specialises in the Mitsuro Hikime technique.

Trained by Master Goldsmith Scott McIntyre and holding an Honours degree from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Lorna blends traditional bench skills with contemporary design sensibilities. She has a particular passion for alternative techniques — including Mitsuro Hikime, Keum-boo, and titanium colouration — and loves helping makers of all levels develop their skills and confidence at the bench.

Lorna’s teaching journey began at Vanilla Ink CIC Jewellery School in Glasgow, where she progressed from Jeweller in Residence to Workshop Manager and Cultural Director.

Join the Course

Lifetime access to this course is usually priced at £398

But it is on special offer with 50% off until Friday 22nd May at just

£199

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