Textile sketchbooks: developing creative projects
Creatively combine colour, texture, pattern and mark-making to extend your textile practice and visual vocabulary. Through a series of workshops you will develop confidence to initiate your own ideas and build a toolbox to explore any creative project, and produce an exciting textile sketchbook to inspire your creative journey.
Ability: Suitable for all
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 6 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects.
Access: Six months of online access to all of the course content.
Ability: Suitable for all
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 6 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects.
Access: Six months of online access to all of the course content.
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Introduction to your tutor Zoë Burt and workshop overview
Getting started
Workshops
Completion and further information
Getting started
- Equipment, materials, and health and safety
Workshops
- How to get started: mark-making and drawing, research and word association
- Reconfiguring and juxtaposing imagery: paper weaving and collage
- Identifying motifs and developing patterns
- Exploring texture through frottage and stitch
- Applique and colour play
Completion and further information
- Ideas going forward
- Further information and resources
Course includes:
You will need:
Equipment
Optional
Materials
Optional
- Access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) with course content
- A series of instructional videos to work through and repeat at your own pace
- Practical tasks to complete
- Helpful materials suppliers list
- Student online gallery where you can post images of your work for tutors to review and comment on
- Support from the college and tutors via email should you need it during the course
- Additional notes and ideas
You will need:
Equipment
- Sponge head chisel brush
- Scissors
- Scalpel or Stanley knife
- Cutting mat
- Metal ruler
- Glue applicator
- Viewfinder
Optional
- Printing roller
- Printing surface e.g. sheet of plastic
Materials
- Indian ink: black and colours
- Tea bag
- Charcoal
- Pen
- Masking tape
- Pencil
- Printing ink
- Watercolours
- Tracing paper
- Pritt stick and/or PVA glue
- Soft wax crayon for frottage
- Fabric
- Embroidery threads
- Needles etc
- Iron on fabric glue
- Coloured papers
Optional
- Fabric fade pen
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Tutor
Zoë Burt
Course content
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