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- Year 11
Mixed-media textiles: combining materials and methods
I can review my project and develop ideas to create a mixed-media motif development sample.
- Year 11
Mixed-media textiles: combining materials and methods
I can review my project and develop ideas to create a mixed-media motif development sample.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Artists use motif development to explore, adapt and strengthen design ideas before applying them to textile techniques.
- Refining designs helps ensure motifs work effectively in stitch or appliqué, balancing detail with clarity.
- Mixed-media combines print, embroidery and fabric techniques to create layered, textured textiles.
Keywords
Refine - improving and adjusting your work to make it stronger
Motif development - changing and repeating a design idea to make it more effective
Mixed-media - in textiles combines different materials and techniques, like print, embroidery, or appliqué, in one piece
Common misconception
You don't need drawings in a textile project.
Drawing motifs and sketching developmental ideas during the initial stages in design work helps to consolidate ideas.
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Equipment
Students' sketchbooks with interesting samples that show how ideas can be developed further. Drawing materials. Thread, fabric, scissors, pins and needles.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What does 'mixed media' mean in art and textiles?
Q2.True or False: Textiles are materials like fabric, thread, or fibres that can be woven, stitched, or layered.
Q3.Match the material to its type:
Plant-based fibre often woven into cloth
Natural fibre from sheep
A non-fabric material sometimes layered into textile art
Q4.Which of these is a textile technique?
Q5.True or False: In mixed-media textiles, you can layer paper, fabric and thread together in one artwork.
Q6.Match the subject to how mixed-media textiles might connect:
Expressive designs by combining different textures and colours
Using maps, photos, or fabrics to explore places and cultures
Looking at traditional textiles and how they were made in the past