Jewellery Academy Wales is part of the Diamond Centre Wales Family. It started back in 2021, with the aspiration to create a jewellery quarter in South Wales. We offer a range of courses and experience days that are aimed to increase and expand your knowledge of Jewellery Design, making and manufacturing. As the Jewellery Academy Wales is part of the Diamond Centre Wales Family, we thought it would be nice for you to get to know a bit more about our sister company too.
The Diamond centre started back in 1983 and has gained an astounding reputation for creating beautiful, sparkling, diamond jewellery. They offer a bespoke ‘’concept to creation’’ jewellery service allowing customers to create their perfect piece of jewellery, all undertaken in house. It is a family run business located in a purpose built merchant quarters in Talbot Green, near Cardiff in South Wales. With over 39 years of experience and a talented team of artists, designers, diamond graders and goldsmiths, who together create over 1000 bespoke pieces a year. These bespoke pieces include necklaces, earrings, engagement rings, dress rings, wedding rings. They also offer a heirloom restoration and redesign service, or jewellery redesign service. With their aim to create jewellery that is as individual to you as your fingerprint. The Diamond Centre Wales go to great lengths to ethically source the finest cut diamonds, whilst matching customer requirements and budget. If your interested in creating your own bespoke call us on 01443 222375, or drop us an email at enquiries@diamondcentrewales.com
The Jewellery Academy Wales is housed with the Diamond Centre Wales in Talbot Green, near Cardiff, we built a brand new extension to house it. Originally started in 2020 but unfortunately was delayed due to COVID. However, construction continued and we were able to run our first experience day in Early 2021. We have a well-equipped workshop with a wide range of tools such as traditional hand tools, draw benches and handheld rollers to cutting-edge laser welders. We also have an advanced CAD and CAM suite which enables you to learn about and enhance your skills with the most up to date technologies including 3D scanning, rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing. We also have a very talented team on hand to help you learn and expand your skill set within the jewellery industry. We have already run a couple of courses and experience days this year, but unfortunately, we are at the end of the academic year for technical Jewellery courses but keep an eye out for new dates coming soon. We have also started the first of our CAD courses, but we will be running one again later on in the year, from September to October. If you have any questions you can call us on 01443 222375 or fill in our contact form here. Also be sure to keep up to date with The Diamond Centre Wales too as we have a few more exciting projects that will not disappoint launching soon!