Credit Points: 15

Study Time: 150 Hours

This unit gives opportunities for a focussed approach to the inventive and explorative design and making processes associated within textiles. Invention, development, and manipulation of fabrics are an important aspect of textile design and making. (Methods of surface pattern and manipulation explored through earlier practical workshops will be revisited and extended to inspire your creative developments and encourage further personal responses to your design and making approaches). 

You will widen the field of practice in order to achieve creative solutions to projects and briefs set. You will be encouraged to consider your creative practice in relation to potential career and study options.

Outline Syllabus
An indicative guide to the content of this unit.

Focused workshops will aid responses to set design briefs.

Experimental textile workshops – extended heat-press and transfer processes, printing techniques e.g. flocking, foiling, devoré, fabric manipulation and bonding techniques, extended stitch, knitting, and felting techniques.

• Extended digital manipulation skills for printing and surface applications. 
• Experimental and innovative personalised visual language, and design, skills. 
• Extended conceptual, dextrous and creative investigations. 
• Evaluate and analyse your response to creative and experimental solutions.

Methods of Delivery
Projects, studio and workshop practice, independent study, research, tutorials and critiques.

Aims

A1 To expand your skills and knowledge through the further creative innovation of textile design and making processes.
A2 To consolidate a personal visual language through exploration of media and the brief.
A3 To consolidate research and design processes through problem solving methodologies.

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit you will be able to:

LO1 Demonstrate skills and knowledge of personal creative innovation that displays a high degree of aesthetic, technical and creative control.
LO2 Demonstrate personalised visual language in relation to set brief and media.
LO3 Demonstrate your ability to apply research to the design and making process through problem solving skills.
LO4 Identify and research possible career and/or post-graduate study options.

Reference Material

Key
Beal, M. (2005). Fusing fabrics: creative cutting, bonding and mark-making with the soldering iron. London: B T Batsford.
Edmonds, J. (2005). Three-dimensional embroidery. London: B T Batsford.
Fish, J. (2005). Designing and printing textiles. Marlborough: The Crowood Press.
Hibbert, R. (2004). Textile innovation: interactive, contemporary and traditional materials. London: Line.
McCarty, C. and McQuaid, M. (1998). Structure and surface: contemporary Japanese textiles. New York: Museum of Modern Art.
Scott, J. (2003). Textile perspectives in mixed-media sculpture. Marlborough: The Crowood Press.
Vyzoviti, S. (2006). Supersurfaces. Amsterdam: BIS.

Recommended
Wolff, C. (1996). The art of manipulating fabric. WI: Krause Publications.
Grey, M. (2006). Felt to stitch. London: B T Batsford