Design and Technology - Textiles

Course summary

A Level Fashion and Textiles provides an excellent opportunity for students to carry out research and develop their own designs to create exciting products. Students will gain a wide range of specialist textiles skills such as sublimation printing, stencil and silkscreen printing, appliqué, embroidery, free machine embroidery, embellishment and felt making to name a few, resulting in a fashion or interior based end product. Students will employ the skills they have learnt to specialise and develop an independent project. Students will learn to appreciate the complex relations between design, materials, manufacture and marketing.