Description
Bring along a broken item of costume jewellery and I will assist you. We will repair it together at the free pop-up jewellery repair cafe!
Bring along a broken item of costume jewellery and I will assist you. We will repair it together at the free pop-up jewellery repair cafe!
You’ll have the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge to make simple repairs yourself whilst being guided through the process. Please note that not all items may be able to be fixed. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee, or lend a hand with someone else’s repair job.
Things which could be fixed are
- attaching a new hook on an earring. Threading up bead necklaces and adding a new hook/ clasp.
- using OLD materials like single earrings , costume materials to make a new item such as neckpiece...
- Glue stone/ pearl
- Lock/clasp broken
- Chain/beads broken
- Chain/Thread too long for the number of beads
The first Repair Café was initiated by Martine Postma in 2009 in Amsterdam. Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things together. We throw away vast amounts of stuff. Even things with almost nothing wrong. The trouble is, lots of people have forgotten that they can repair things themselves or they don’t know how. The Repair Cafe allows things to be used for longer and keeps things out of landfill.
https://www.repaircafe.org/en/