Skills Term
During your skills term, you are required to produce a short project for your homework. You need to find out as much as you can about textiles, focusing on how pattern and print. This project must be a minimum of 6 A4 pages, but you can extend on this should you wish to. It should include written informatin that you have researched and written up in your own words with personal comment and evaluations of what you have found as well as sketches, photographs or print outs of relevant images. The finished piece of work should be presented in booklet form at the start of week 4 of your skills term.
Areas you must investigate:
How to needle felt
Examples of designers who needle feltExamples of needle felted items
How to print on fabric, looking at Batik and mono printing (you can look at more methods)
Examples of designers who use print techniques
Examples of printed items
How to weave a fabric
Examples of types of woven fabric
A sample of a paper weave
Examples of designers who weave their own fabrics
An idea of how you could plan your homework schedule:
Week 1 -
Investigate needle felting
Week 2 -
Investigate printing methods
Week 3 -
Investigate weaves
Present all work
