Module overview
This module encourages you to explore and experiment with traditional and digital textile processes within a design context relevant to your discipline subject. You will test your ideas practically with the aim of developing you into an informed and skilled designer. Experiencing these processes will help in your knowledge and understanding of the industry and the production methods relevant to your work. Engaging with the hand and traditional skills alongside the digital processes will underpin your professional practice and employability within the textile Industry. Your experimental approaches across both the traditional techniques and digital technologies should help you start to develop an individual and contemporary approach to your work and the module will allow you to combine and challenge these processes in line with your creative thinking.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- utilise presentation skills in an increasingly professional way
- solve problems independently, manage your time effectively and work to deadlines
- communicate ideas effectively in a variety of written, visual and digital formats
- utilise a wide range of learning resources to inform your practice
- employ digital skills to support your learning
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- how to apply the skills needed to practice professionally in textile design
- a variety of traditional and digital media, techniques, technologies and materials to realise your ideas
- innovative and contemporary practices within textile design and how the professional, cultural and technological changes taking place in this field impact on your work
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge of production for a professional context through the realisation of a collection of Samples, design outcomes and supporting work
- evidence your increasing experimentation with processes in a professional and organised manner
- explore and apply materials, techniques and processes, both traditional and digital to communicate and realise an individual approach to textile design
- work and use machines and equipment safely in the studios and workshops with increased competence
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Effectively utilise your research to inform your experimentation and translation of ideas into design
- apply methods of enquiry and reflection which will enable you to critically evaluate the qualities in your work in order to relate your ideas to an intended context
- test, evaluate and develop your ideas and practical skills within your discipline
Syllabus
This module marks the next steps in acquiring and developing digital and traditional practical skills in your specialist pathway, to allow you to become increasingly competent and independent. You will find suitable materials and working methods to realise your ideas and attend appropriate technical demonstrations. This module will build on your knowledge and understanding of Part 1 and will start to equip you with the self-analysis necessary to develop your independent working in Part 3.
Your developing knowledge of the context of your ideas will be supported by group and tutor discussions. You will be encouraged to experiment and work creatively and safely in the School’s studios and workshops and utilise the School’s central digital resources to develop your design ideas.
You will experience workshops, which include specific technical instruction related to your selected textile pathway. This module will also include creative workshops on drawing and mark making, sketchbook development, visual communication, material and yarn selection, textile design processes, colour analysis and application. These examples are illustrative and not exhaustive and may vary each academic year.
You will assemble a portfolio of work and supporting material developed in response to the set projects. The portfolio must include evidence of your research, development and specialist subject workshops.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include
- Group tutorials and discussions
- One-to-one tutorials
- Critical Reviews
- Creative workshops
- Technical demonstrations
- Visual presentations
- Industry insight from guest speakers
- Formative feedback
- Project briefings
Learning activities include:
- Creative development
- Drawing workshops
- Research and concept development workshops
- Creative design development
- Technical workshops
- Optional study visits (Museums, Galleries and related activities to research for projects)
- Peer group learning
- Group critiques
- Self-assessment
- Study skills Hub
Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes
The module learning and teaching activities help you to explore and investigate your ideas through studio-based or related activities in your subject specific areas focusing on digital and traditional practical skills. Technical demonstrations and creative workshops will increase your knowledge of the contemporary discipline context in which you are working and help you develop confidence in the selection and use of practical skills. Formative feedback to help enable your understanding of your area and develop greater levels of critical analysis and thinking is continuous throughout the module through one-to-one tutorials, group tutorials and critiques with specialist staff and peers. Written feedback takes place midway in the semester. Students may also request one-to-one feedback with specialist staff.
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Independent Study | 100 |
| Wider reading or practice | 30 |
| Supervised time in studio/workshop | 70 |
| Completion of assessment task | 90 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 30 |
| Tutorial | 30 |
| Lecture | 10 |
| Practical classes and workshops | 90 |
| Total study time | 450 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
University of Southampton Digital Learning resource for students to access CAD and Digital Tutorials. www.lynda.com
WSA Creative Services: Students can access a wide range of 2D and 3D printing and laser cut facilities..
Harvard citing and referencing systems, including citethemright online resource. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing
Blackboard. http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk Panopto via Blackboard You will be guided by your tutors to preparatory and ongoing relevant texts whether in print or available online, An on-gong relevant reading list to specific projects will be listed on the project brief/s and available on blackboard
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
Textbooks
Dowde. J (2004). Freeform knitting and crochet (Vol. Milner Craft Series). Burra Creek, N.S.W.: Sally Milner Publishing..
Oelsner. GH (1952). A Handbook of Weaves. London.
Bowles. M & Isaac. C (2009). Digital Textile and Design. Laurence King Publications.
Briggs-Goode. A (2013). Printed Textile Design. Laurence King Publications.
Clarke, S. (2011). Textile Design. Laurence King Publications.
Holyoke, J. (2013). Digital Jacquard Design. UK: Bloomsbury.
Donofrio-Ferrezza, Lisa (2008). Designing a knitwear collection: from inspiration to finished garments. Fairchild.
Shenton. J. (2004). Woven Textile Design. Laurence King Publications.
Tellier-Loumagne, Françoise (2005). The art of knitting; inspirational stitches, textures and surfaces. Thames and Hudson.
Alderman. S (2008). Mastering Weave Structures transforming ideas into great cloth. USA: Interweave Press.
Russell Alex (2011). The Fundementals of Printed Textile Design. AVA Academia.
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