Tom Asquith set up his workshop in the Jewellery Quarter in 2013 after a degree in three-dimensional applied art at the University of Wolverhampton and a postgraduate year at the Bishopsland workshops in Oxfordshire. Working from a first-floor studio on Regent Place, he makes geometric, saw-pierced and hand-engraved jewellery and small objects in silver and gold, produced as one-off commissions or in small batches rather than mass production. Alongside his own retail range, Asquith and fellow jeweller Vanessa Miller run wedding ring-making courses from the studio, taking a maximum of two students at a time through cutting, shaping, soldering and finishing their own bands over a single day, plus longer beginner and six-week courses in silversmithing. The workshop displays its tools and equipment in the studio itself, reached via a steep staircase from Regent Place, in a district still home to hundreds of independent jewellers and workshops producing a large share of the UK's jewellery.
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