Rome: Make Your Own Silver Ring with a Roman Goldsmith｜Italy

We begin with an espresso and a sketch. You decide what to make. More often, a ring. Sometimes earrings, or a pendant to wear close.

Then the silver. You cut it, file it, bring it to heat and curve. I guide you through each step. The technique is Etruscan, older than Rome itself. By the last hour it has stopped being metal, and you walk back into Rome wearing the thing you made.

I am Sophie. I have worked silver and gold in Rome for most of my life, and I teach Contemporary Jewellery at the Accademia di Moda Italiana. But it is here, at the bench, that I do my favourite teaching: one guest at a time, never a group, so every step is properly hands-on and unhurried.

There is nothing you need to bring, and nothing to know beforehand. Most people who come have never made anything by hand before. The silver itself is weighed at the end, and you pay only for the grams your piece uses; a ring is a few grams.

If you come as two, you share one bench and make one piece together, taking turns at each step. You leave with a single piece that carries both your hands.

The session is in English or Italian, as you prefer.