Weaving techniques: crafting textures and patterns

Art and design

Deepening the understanding of the principles of textile design

Embroidery skills: creating detailed and decorative stitching

Exploring dyeing methods: colour and pattern creation

Fabric manipulation: techniques for texture and form

Thematic development: designing cohesive and expressive textile art

Mixed-media textiles: combining materials and methods

This teacher-led unit deepens pupils' skills within endorsements. Through short workshop activities, pupils further explore a range of materials and techniques. They develop studies focused on the elements and principles of art in practice.

Foundation workshops: developing skills

gathering fabric with stitches: it creates ripples, folds, or pleats.

fabric is bent or doubled to form ridges, pleats, or layers

Changing or altering fabric to create new shapes, textures, or forms could be described as:

True or false: Stiff materials like bubble wrap cannot be manipulated.

In Elizabethan times, dramatic ruff collars were made by:

building up surfaces with multiple pieces of fabric

cutting edges into strips to create movement and texture

gathering fabric to create ripples and folds

True or false: Fabric manipulation is only used to make clothes look more decorative.

Weaving techniques: crafting textures and patterns

Lesson outcome