Prerequisites
None
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Course Description
This course is an introduction to fashion design and textile products, with an introduction to fabrics, materials, and sewing equipment. Students will investigate the world of textiles and fashion design, learn about fashion illustration and communication, fabric sources and manufacture, sewing skills, and textile manufacturing techniques. Students will use simple, existing patterns to design, embellish, and manufacture fashion and textile products. These skills will provide students with a solid foundation in sewing, construction, decoration, and manufacturing skills for fashion & textiles.
Learning Outcomes
Students will:
- Learn how to develop and source ideas from the world around them and from different times, places, and cultures to inspire their own work.
- Understand the links between contemporary and historical fashion, literature, art and music, history, and their own designs.
- Learn how to use a sewing machine and hand stitch to construct their own garments.
- Learn how to read and use commercial sewing patterns to create a garment that is personally adjusted and fitted.
- Fabrics, from source to manufacturing, colourisation, and printing, with students developing their own repeat patterns, will be used in their garments.
- Reflect on and respond to their own and others’ designs. Through the reflection process, students will review, adapt, and modify their work to realize their intentions.
Assessment
The assessment of student achievement is based on:
- End products (understanding the process and quality of the finished and functioning textile product).
- Visual journal and contextual displays: this will include research, the development of ideas, evaluations, critiques, reviews, handouts, and written assignments.
- Peer and self-critique.
Grades
9,
10,
11,
12
Grading Scheme
Standards-based Course