PART ONE: Observing and Capturing
Assignment One

PART TWO: Surface and Stitch
Assignment Two

PART THREE: Colour Studies
Assignment Three

PART FOUR: Yarn and Linear Exploration
Assignment Four

PART FIVE: Building a Collection
Assignment Five

Course Aims: 

• allow you to explore archive textiles though observational drawing and develop textile design ideas
• introduce you to ways of recording and using colour from different sources using a range of media
• develop your awareness of traditional and non-traditional yarn types and simple textile sampling
• develop your reflective skills and ability to evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches

Reflection on Aims:
Something that excites me about this course - and beginning the textiles degree more generally - is that I have almost no technical knowledge or skill in this area. I can find my way around a sewing machine pretty easily, I can construct and embroider and weave... and I can kind of apply the technical skill I have learned in my painting and drawing practices, but I feel so energetic and excited about applying these two areas together in a more formal sense. I have been doing some experimentation with textiles within my drawing practice for a long time, but this feels like a genuinely new place to grow both as an artist and as a craft practitioner (or perhaps there is no difference between the two!)