Textiles 2: Developing Creative Textiles

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Level:: 2
Credits:: 60
Length:: 15 months approx.
10hrs per week
Cost:: £695
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Course Overview

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This course extends the work done in Textiles 1: A Creative Approach, and helps you develop your own ideas and designs to a higher level. You will gain a greater understanding of your preferred textile techniques, become more self-reliant as a designer and develop a more personal approach to design through a mixture of structured and self-generated projects. Several new areas are covered, particularly dyes and dyeing, and these allow you to experiment with colour. You will also be investigating textiles from other cultures and twentieth century textile movements.

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Natural and man-made fibres
Identification of fibres
Dyeing and screen printing
Designing a scarf
Twentieth century designs.

To view a sample of this course online, click HERE or to download a PDF of the sample, click HERE.

The course aims to develop greater understanding of techniques and a more individual approach to visual ideas and design; explore in greater depth the historical and ethnographic context of textiles.

Distance Tuition

You are allocated a tutor and receive their details in your course pack. You work from the course materials and send regular assignments to your tutor. These are returned to you with comment and advice. The course fee includes tutor feedback on your set assignments, but you can purchase feedback and comment on additional pieces of work if you wish.

Face to Face Tuition

You choose a tutor within travelling distance (call OCA on 0800 731 2116 to find your nearest tutor) and you meet them at mutually agreeable times and dates. You are entitled to an agreed number of hours tuition, typically five hours. Tutors work from their own studios or other suitable teaching space. You can find out where your nearest tutor is by contacting Academic Services on 0800 731 2116.

Seven projects and five assignments. Students also maintain a learning log.

For more information on assessment, click here - Assessment and how to get qualified booklet - to download the booklet PDF.