Scale7, a QDB incubator, successfully hosts jewellery-making with metal workshop

Scale7, the first fashion and design business incubator in Qatar founded by Qatar Development Bank (QDB), in partnership with M7, has hosted another successful series of ‘Digital Fabrication Intensive Courses’ under ‘The Labs Programme’ with the aim to empower entrepreneurs in the fashion and design ecosystem with practical experience.The jewellery-making workshop that took place between February 28 and March 2, witnessed the participation of seven promising talents. The three-day intensive course was focused on ‘jewellery-making with metal’ for design and jewellery enthusiasts.Through this highly-interactive workshop, the participants were able to learn basic techniques for jewellery-making with metal and experimented with different techniques, such as using callipers, transferring the metal into jewellery piece with a scribe tool, finger size calculation, working on textures with hammers and other tools, shaping metal sheet and wire, and polishing the metal using sandpaper, files, compounds, and brushes. By the end of the workshop, each participant had made a piece of jewellery from scratch.The programme was directed by Valentina Barella, founder of Oriunda Jewels, a jewellery maker and designer, who graduated in languages and international communication and in Accessory and Jewellery Design at Politecnico of Milan. She co-founded Fucina Orafa, the first jewellery hub and co-working space in Milan.Commenting on the success of the workshop, Aysha Khalifa al-Romaihi, project manager of Scale7, said: “After having successfully conducted various fab lab workshops in the past, our jewellery-making workshop with metal yet again witnessed huge participation from the budding fashion tech startups.”She added: “Such overwhelming response only strengthens our vision to offer newer paradigms of growth for our incredible fashion and design entrepreneurs. Keeping up with the vision to support them in their endeavours, we will continue to provide such interesting workshops for the design enthusiasts in the future too and encourage them to take on newer growth trajectories.”