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Weaving techniques: crafting textures and patterns
I can design and create a woven sample that uses shape and texture to produce a clear pattern.
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- Year 11
Weaving techniques: crafting textures and patterns
I can design and create a woven sample that uses shape and texture to produce a clear pattern.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Artists use constructed textiles in diverse ways, from functional design to large-scale installations.
- Cultural background and personal identity often influence an artist’s choice of materials, colours and techniques.
- Experimentation with texture and form allows artists to push the boundaries of traditional weaving and tapestry.
Keywords
Tapestry - woven fabric where the weft forms the pattern or image
Texture - the surface quality created through weaving
Constructed textiles - fabrics made by interlacing fibres through techniques like weaving or knitting
Common misconception
Constructed textiles are only made by weaving on a loom.
Constructed textiles include any fabric created by interlacing, knotting, looping, or bonding fibres such as weaving, knitting, crochet, macramé and even non-woven techniques, not just loom weaving.
Spend some time teaching students how to draw their grid out on grid paper. They should count their warp threads and then count their weft threads and try to mark them on their grid. It is a good idea to also add colour at this stage.
Teacher tip
Equipment
Loom, plastic weaving needle, yarns, grid paper, pencils, coloured pencils.
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2026), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the definitions and the words
Match the definitions and the words
Q2.Changing or altering fabric to create new shapes, textures, or forms could be described as:
Changing or altering fabric to create new shapes, textures, or forms could be described as:
tapestry
weaving
Q3.True or false: Stiff materials like bubble wrap cannot be manipulated.
True or false: Stiff materials like bubble wrap cannot be manipulated.
True
Q4.In Elizabethan times, dramatic ruff collars were made by:
In Elizabethan times, dramatic ruff collars were made by:
folding, digital printing and starching
machines, pleating and starching
Q5.Match the words with the techniques
Match the words with the techniques
Q6.True or false: Fabric manipulation is only used to make clothes look more decorative.
True or false: Fabric manipulation is only used to make clothes look more decorative.
True
