Art and Design (Textiles)

Course summary

This creative and thought-provoking qualification gives students the practical skills and a greater understanding of developing textiles processes to be able to create pieces that reflect their own individual ideas and thought processes. Through their investigations, students will build on their research, design, development and making skills through a variety of different media to develop highly skilled outcomes. Students are required to work in one or more area(s) of textile design, such as those listed below. They may explore overlapping areas and combinations of areas: fashion design, fashion textiles, costume design, digital textiles, printed and/or dyed fabric and materials, domestic textiles and wallpaper, interior design, constructed textiles, art textiles, installed textiles. Students will need to build on these areas of study, through developed investigations: construction methods, ergonomics and anthropometrics, decorative and embellishing techniques, fabric making, dyeing and manipulation, also developing skills in designing for an audience, historical and a thorough investigation of artists/designers to be able to develop their own ideas.