Textiles

This new and exciting course is designed to encourage you to pursue your own personal exploration in diverse genres of fashion, textiles and craft. As a Textiles student, you will have the chance to develop your artistic skills and experiment with a breadth of materials and techniques in our purpose built studio space.

You will take part in skills workshops looking at textiles materials and areas such as print, dye, embroidery, embellishment, surface and digital design, that will help you discover the type of textile practitioner you are. You will then apply the skills you have learned in briefs using research, development of ideas and refinement to finished pieces. All work is carried out in sketchbooks, with additional sampling and making. You will cover a range of techniques including use of tools and machinery.

Your practical work follows a pathway of analytical research of artists’ work, development and idea refinement to final practical pieces within the exploration of a given theme. More advanced techniques and skills are taught and developed including CAD processes including Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.

Personal exploration is encouraged, as are independent student work, thought and idea generation. This course is ideal if you are a creative person and you have a passion for pattern, colour, design and making or material innovation.

On this course we will:

• Give you the chance to produce innovative designs allowing you to explore how to make the textiles and surfaces which surround us all each day.
• Develop colourways and texture or producing a surface design or illustration.
• Help you develop craft skills used in the creation of products suitable for the fashion or interiors market.
• Build awareness of and skills in, contemporary fashion design, innovative textile applications, with an option for garment making and costume design
• Use a range of technology to bring your ideas to life including sewing machines, computer aided embroidery, as well as pattern cutting equipment. Competitions and live briefs
• Critical thinking and analysis including artist and designer research
• Explore how the world works and gain global perspective through market and trend research in fashion, interiors, accessories and products
• Develop your creative, professional, intellectual and personal abilities as these are acknowledged as the key skills required for a broad range of textile related careers

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