Full Time FdA Contemporary Textile Practice

UCAS codes
CLEVE C71
W790

Duration
2 years full-time or 4 years part-time

Location
Church Square, Hartlepool

General overview
This programme is ideally suited to developing a career as a textile designer-maker, and integrates specialist textile skills with the knowledge required to take ideas through to marketable products. It provides a realistic experience of initiating and maintaining a viable enterprise with own emphasis on the quality of making.

You will develop and extend your technical expertise, and explore your own creative and professional practice as a designer-maker through live project work, work experience and participation in contemporary craft trade shows.

Level 1 modules: Visual Language, Textile Techniques, Work-Related Learning/Projects, Introductory Professional Studies, Introductory Contextual Studies

Level 2 modules: Advanced Textile Techniques, Negotiated Project, Work-Related Learning/Final Project, Professional Studies, Contextual Studies

Why study this subject at CCAD?
The programme offers an exciting opportunity to work exclusively with textile applications and develop finished crafted products. We provide an excellent range of opportunities for you to develop an in-depth understanding of creative and professional practice, including:
· Work experience opportunities
· Live assignments and projects
· Educational visits
· National competitions and awards
· Participating in exhibitions and trade shows
· Visiting speakers from the professional designer-maker community

The College provides excellent studios, workshops and resources. You will be supported and guided by a team of professional academic and technical staff. Traditional workshop areas are complemented by computer-aided design and textile digital printing.

What new skills will I aquire?
You will be able to establish your own creative identity in the realisation and presentation of products for the contemporary textile craft market, underpinned by the awareness of professional practice, including costing, marketing and selling your work. You will develop skills in a variety of textile techniques including fabric dyeing, textile printing, hand and machine embroidery, felt-making, handknitting and crochet. The design process will be initiated through drawing and image generation, and supported by an understanding of contextual issues and design history.

Success stories
Student achievements include:
· Live assignment with Traidcraft
· Excellent professional feedback for students completing work experience, including Monsoon Design Studio, Bowes Museum, and a variety of established designer-makers
· Links with Shipley Art Gallery, Sumptuosity (York) and Ateliero (Teesside)

What can I do next?
You can develop an individual focus towards employment, self-employment as a designer-maker, or progress to an honours degree in BA (Hons) Textiles and Surface Design.

Potential careers include:
· Designer-maker
· Freelance design work
· Working with textiles and craft galleries
· Studio designer
· Community arts
· Arts development
· Teaching and lecturing