Textiles 1: Exploring Ideas

Core Requirement for BA Hons Textiles
Elective Option for BA Hons Creative Arts

This exciting addition to the range of textiles courses compliments and extends the technical understanding and the development of craft skills acquired in Textiles 1: A Creative Approach, and introduces Screen Printing as a craft skill. Students are therefore advised to complete Textiles 1: A Creative Approach before enrolling on this course. This will ensure textiles students are well prepared to work at the more advanced level 2.

It consolidates and further develops visual awareness, the interpretation and application of imagery and tactile qualities associated with textile practice through more focused visual research towards set and self generated projects. It explores inherent cultural differences and fusions in contemporary textiles.

It re-enforces the critical understanding and awareness to issues, theoretical, contextual and practice based related to textiles through a series of personal investigations. Students keep a learning log where the processes of creative enquiry and their learning experience will be documented.

In a final project, students interpret a brief which allows for the development of personal research and processes involved towards the making of a textile piece .