Art and Design (Textiles)

Course summary

Do you enjoy Textile Design and have a passion for fabrics, threads and all kinds of fibres? Do you take pleasure in experimenting with colour texture and pattern? Then this course is for you. You will gain knowledge, skills, and enjoyment from learning the basic elements of art and design, and from improving your skills in sewing, embroidery, felting, weaving, painting, printing, image manipulation, and digital photography. You will also learn how to progress your studies from initial ideas through to outcomes and how to present those outcomes to achieve their maximum visual impact. This course places a strong emphasis on learning how other artists create images as well as on contemporary techniques and materials. You will gain knowledge, skills and enjoyment. You will learn the basic elements of art and design and improve your skills in sewing, surface pattern, embroidery, painting, printing, constructing textiles, felting, weaving and fabric manipulation. You will also learn how to progress your studies from initial ideas through to outcomes and how to present those outcomes to achieve their maximum visual impact. You’ll have the opportunity to travel to exhibitions, such as The Clothes Show, exhibit your work at the Creative and Applied Art faculty’s End of Year Show and be taught by practising artists.