Sunday, August 24, 2025, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon (Please choose just one Sunday workshop. They're held simultaneously!)
 
NO MESS Simple Sample Charms YOU make in minutes with a $10 trading card kit
 
Unblock your creativity as you design and create your own fine silver beauties using the latest innovations in luxury art materials with the award-winning Struve Fold Lock techniques. Come play alongside their forgetive developer in this valuable workshop where you design and make your own fine jewelry with Master Metal Bender Kim Struve's guidance and your Metal Leather Kits of recycled fine silver.
 
Metal Leather Kits are quick with no sticky mess and no danger. These trading card kits include a variety of simple instructions and are small enough to do in your lap. Enjoy freedom to luxury craft most anywhere with these #foldableSILVER kits from Art Wabi Sabi. Share your joy with friends and family: invite them to these workshops, send gift kits in the mail for no extra postage, even host a profitable Fold & Fire event to teach the Struve Fold Locks.

You can fold a variety of awesome fine silver art components with just one $10 kit. In this fast-paced Technique Discovery Workshop, you will use your kits as you learn to make different fine silver charms. We'll spend 15-90 minutes practicing the initial gum wrapper link and open square techniques. Around 11:30 we'll break for a Q&A discussion of the silver's handling, firing, strengths, limitations, recovery, reclamation, et cetera. 
 
CLICK to secure your favorite textures and sizes of Metal Leather Kits from the Student section at ArtWabiSabi.etsy.com. One Large G Kit ($10) is required for this workshop, two or more allow YOU greater flexibility. SunBurst uses ~8.5 Medium G kits.
 
If you hope to fold along with any demo or receive instruction in the marketplace, you are encouraged to pre-purchase those kits online to secure your preferred textures or at the symposium before class not to miss a second of workshop activity.
 
No firing in this workshop however you may give me items to fire and ship, or just put them back in their package to take with you and fire later. The kits contain printed firing instructions, QR code and online lesson locations.
 
About Kim
Forgetive Master Metal Bender and Senior Certifying Metal Clay Instructor Kim Struve of San Antonio, Texas, chooses industry leaders’ hands-on courses to accelerate her competencies. She has provided metal clay education to adults and children in large [70+] and small groups since 2011. Struve has great student rapport, as one opined, “Kim is an amazing artist with a big heart and open mind; ready to learn from every class she teaches.”  Love, math and nature influence her designs, and passion demands she share the FUNctional, unique and novel through demonstrations, presentations, lessons, courses, and inventions. Her work has been exhibited internationally, published in Metal Clay Today, printed in the MCAS guide, graced April in the calendar of Exceptional Work, and the Struve Fold Lock techniques won the first AMCAW Innovation Award; others to follow.  Her special methods resulted from a determination to create strong joinery, components, jewelry and art with no tools, no waste and no mess using foldableSILVER -an innovative fine silver form. Kim seized the opportunity to grant the public easy entry to the luxurious world of fine jewelry design and creation by developing Metal LeatherTM Kits. These fine silver trading card kits fit in your wallet, have simple video instructions, start under $5, and can fly -TSA approves!