Module overview
This module introduces you to Textile Design through the areas of printed, woven and knitted textiles. The introduction to the three specialist areas of the programme will allow you to use a range of research methods and media exploration to generate ideas, which will be explored through introductory workshop skills, materials and processes across the three specialisms. This will enable you to make choices regarding the more specialist direction of your practice. As well as engaging in creating your practical work, you will learn how your contextual knowledge and critical thinking will help you develop and enhance your work. You will be able to engage in exciting skills you may not have explored before. This module will also give you the opportunity to gain confidence within a specialism and experience new ways of thinking and making.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- evidence a coherent development in your work based on interpretation of research
- apply practical workshop skills to realise your ideas
- reflect and evaluate your work to make informed judgments including problem solving
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- explore and employ a range of materials, techniques and processes, in development work and final outcomes including digital technologies to an introductory level
- use machines and equipment competently and safely to an introductory level in the studio workshops
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- manage your time effectively and meet set deadlines
- utilise a wide range of learning sources to inform your practice including digital skills
- communicate and present your ideas effectively in a variety of formats
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- an exploratory approach to the development of ideas through drawing and experimentation through a variety of media
- contemporary art and design practice and cultural contexts and how this can be integrated into your own practice
- an introductory range of workshop skills and processes across the three disciplines
Syllabus
Indicative content for this module normally includes:
- Sketchbook development
- Workshop inductions
- Drawing sessions
- Introductory Digital sessions
- Health and Safety
The projects and technical inductions of this module are set to enable you to explore the range of textile subject specialisms. Workshops will introduce you to basic techniques and skills in research, drawing for design, handloom sampling, flatbed machine knitting, textile printing and digital design. Tutorials and studio sessions will guide you through research methods, idea development and approaches for interpretation into textile design ideas.
These should help promote your understanding of printed, woven and knitted textiles. Based on your experiences towards the end of this module, you will be asked to choose a Textile Design specialism you want to pursue in the next practice based module, Textiles, Materials and Design.
Your choice of a specialism in this module will help you consider and finalise which of the programme’s specialist pathways suits your strengths and interests and will be your mode of study for the rest of the programme in Parts 2 and 3.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
- Project briefings
- Group tutorials
- One-to-one tutorials
- Critical reviews
- Formative feedback
- Creative workshops
- Technical demonstrations
- Visual presentations
Learning activities include:
- Creative portfolio development
- Drawing workshops
- Technical skills development
- Research development
- Creative design and technical workshops
- Peer group learning
- Group critiques
- Formative self-evaluation
- Industry Insight from guest speakers
- Study Skills Hub
Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes
In this module, creative teaching activities and interactive learning will help you to develop a range of skills through which you can explore a project specific to textile design and the modules learning outcomes. You will experience a variety of creative and technical workshops, which are designed to give you an introduction to textile design and offer you tools through which to experiment and explore. Lectures and further workshops will introduce you to the subject areas, project theme and contextualise your thinking. You will be encouraged to develop your critical thinking to help you enhance your work through its development.
Group and one-to-one tutorials are held with specialist staff that will help you to review your progress and development. Group discussion and group critiques will provide opportunities for peer group learning and self-evaluation. Formative Assessment is non-marked. Formative feedback is given continually through a variety of verbal opportunities during the module, including weekly tutorials and project reviews as well as peer-group sessions. This will allow you to reflect on and develop your understanding of the module, your discipline and subject, and help you review the progress of your own work. Written formative feedback is undertaken mid –semester to help identify any issues in advance of Summative Assessment. Summative Assessment (written sheet with mark) is based on a final portfolio of work presented in response to the set projects at the end of each semester.
Specialist staff, along with your Personal Tutor, will advise you on your choice of subject specialism for the Textiles, Materials and Design Module taking place in Semester 2.
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Demonstration | 5 |
| Completion of assessment task | 90 |
| External visits | 5 |
| Lecture | 10 |
| Practical classes and workshops | 85 |
| Independent Study | 100 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 30 |
| Tutorial | 32 |
| Wider reading or practice | 30 |
| Supervised time in studio/workshop | 63 |
| Total study time | 450 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Academic Integrity issues. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity
The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash
Harvard citing and referencing systems, including the citethemright online resource. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing
Lynda.com. Digital Learning resource for students to access digital support and tutorials https://www.lynda.com/
Blackboard. http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk Panopto via Blackboard
WSA Creative Services. Students can access a wide range of 2D and 3D printing and laser cut facilities.
Textbooks
Holyoke, J (2013). Digital Jacquard Design. Bloomsbury, UK.
Briggs-Goode. A (2013). Printed Textile Design. Laurence King Publications.
Shenton. J. (2004). Woven Textile Design. Laurence King Publications.
Bowles. M & Isaac. C (2009). Digital Textile Design. Laurence King Publications.
Tellier-Loumagne, Françoise (2005). The art of knitting; inspirational stitches, textures and surfaces. T&H.
Dowde, J. (2004). Freeform knitting and crochet (Vol. Milner Craft Series). Burra Creek: N.S.W.: Sally Milner Publishing..
Clarke, S. (2011). Textile Design. Lawrence King Publications.
Russell. A (2011). The Fundamentals of Printed Textile design AVA Academia.
Donofrio-Ferrezza, L. (2008). Designing a knitwear collection: from inspiration to finished garments. Fairchild.
Alderman. S. (2008). Mastering Weave Structures transforming ideas into great cloth. USA: Interweave Press.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Portfolio DevelopmentSummative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal