Creating templates for fabric from drawings

Art and design

Art about conflict

Develop a design for an arpillera

Stitch an arpillera

Explore needle felting

Evaluate and refine your arpillera

This unit can be linked with pupils' studies in other curriculum areas on World Wars. They will draw from observation and investigate how artists have responded to war and conflict through textiles, before using their personal ideas of conflict to create an appliqué panel.

War and conflict in art: textiles

Pieces of fabric cut into shapes and sewn onto another fabric.

To copy the shape or outline of something by drawing around it.

Match the following terms with their definitions.

Why do textile artists use templates for appliqué?

Pinning templates to fabric allows artists to {{}} the placement of their designs.

What is the first step after cutting out templates?

Templates help artists to cut fabric shapes that are the __________size and shape every time.

stitching pieces of fabric to other materials

Which of these descriptions best defines appliqué?

Materials to be stitched to other materials

draw over lines in a drawing often using transparent paper

a material which can be used for stitching.

Creating templates for fabric from drawings

Lesson outcome