Working with Baltic Amber – with Robert Pytlos

10-17, Friday, 24 April

at the Jewellery – Linking Bodies department (RV007)  

Open to all students across the academy

 

Drop in throughout the day! 

 

10.00- 13.00 - Baltic amber workshop

13.00- 14.00 - Lunch 

14.00- 17.00 - Baltic amber workshop

 

Students from across the academy are invited to drop by the Jewellery - Linking Bodires department to learn how to work with Baltic amber - a valuable jewellery material and known as the noble resin. 

In this special workshop, participants will learn about Baltic amber as a jewellery and ornamental material and the basic methods for its manual processing. Working with raw Baltic amber, you will use files for shaping, forming and preliminary grinding, as well as materials for final processing, such as chamois, flannel, sandpaper and polishing pastes

Natural raw Baltic amber contains succinic acid, which distinguishes it from about a hundred other fossil resins. While it is a hardened resin, it is also light and brittle. No two ambers are the same. Each is unique and of exceptional beauty, with its colour changing with time. 

The workshop is implemented within the framework of the project Gdansk – the world capital of amber. 

Robert Pytlos, coordinator of the Mayor of the City of Gdansk responsible for 19 years for the project Gdansk - the world capital of amber, journeyman in the craft of amber working, long-time secretary of the World Amber Council, awarded the Amber Circle Medal of the International Amber Association, honorary member of the National Amber Chamber of Commerce, awarded the Honorary Badge of the Association of Polish Crafts, author of article entries about Baltic amber and amber industry in the Gedanopedia (Gdańsk Encyclopedia), lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Gdańsk, Poland