Art and Design (Textiles)

Course summary

Textile design involves creation, selection and manipulation across a variety of practices. The tools used in textile design are wide ranging, encompassing traditional hand crafts and computer-aided technology, for example, hand embroidery and computerized sewing machines. Natural and manufactured materials, including paper, wire, tissue, gauze, plastics, re-cycled packaging and cloths such as silk, wool, cotton, polyester and hessian are used to address aspects of design in fashion, furnishing and fine art. In the context of this specification, disciplines include constructed textiles, dyed textiles, printed textiles, fine art textiles and fashion textiles. Students will be required to work in one or more of these disciplines.