Introduction to the Mitsuro Hikime, an ancient Japanese wax forming technique for jewellery and objects.

I’m going you through the machines, tools and materials that we are going to work with.

Measure the weight of the ingredients and mix them up.

While I’m cooking.

Adding the final ingredient and pouring the melted wax.

Checking the mixture and taking you through some shapes and designs.

Talking about tattoo artists, finger prints and cocoa butter.

Warming up the wax, talking about the weather, squeezing and folding.

Forming and creating

Chop the sprue off and filing following the flow.

Patina, bruses and refining.

Sunday 25th of February 5:30pm GMT

Saturday 16th of March 5:30pm GMT

Tuesday 21st of May 7:30pm GMT

Monday 24th of June 7:30pm GMT