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.

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Introduction to your tutor Zoë Burt and workshop overview

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:

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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Zoë Burt is a designer, educator and award winning artist. Trained at Central St Martins, she designed for UK fashion labels for nearly 20 years. Zoë tutors in colleges, universities and facilitates experiential workshops for world class venues that promote the intersection of design, craft and horticulture. Her recent collaborations explore textile design and artistry, using natural dyes.

Zoë's current themes explore the connection between ecology, botanical colour, activism and sustainability. From a young age Zoë has been a botanical explorer with a love for art, textiles and fashion. Her book Nature Journal, in collaboration with Marianne Wie, sold at V&A as part of the Fashioned from Nature exhibition. Zoë loves sharing her skills and continuing to learn about the depth of colour, history and potential in connecting with nature, textiles and people.

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Textile sketchbooks: developing creative projects

Tutor

Zoë Burt

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