After attending a fantastic Textiles Skills Centre ‘Tea ‘n’ Chat’ lead by Nicky Simpson, on Cross-curricular links, I decided it was time to spread Textiles throughout my school! Nicky had explained...
Mixing it up in a school Eco Project Rachel Addy, an AO, teaching at GMS Marlow, also a Textile Skills Centre associate member, has passed on her newly found creative...
Our very own Nicky Simpson, who volunteers for St Georges Hospital London Charity Arts team, held 2 days of ‘Botanical Bunting Making’ workshops in the gardens and courtyards of the...
Taken from a blog written by Textiles Teacher Haidee Foy (Maidstone Grammar School for Girls) who used the Textiles Skills Centre ‘Careers in Fashion & Textiles’ Free Resource with her...
2020 saw many changes in how we work, learn, teach and socialise. Our constantly evolving needs, behaviours and environment have meant developing new ways of teaching and learning and new...
COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause disruption and uncertainty – how are we responding and what do we need to do to ensure a sustainable future for the Arts and Design...
THE COUNTRY CALLED AND THE TEXTILE TEACHERS ANSWERED The Covid-19 crisis has brought us together like nothing else has. The realisation early on, that the NHS was so short of...
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, in the way we live and what is happening around us.”- Coco Chanel Clothing...
Encouraging students to think about how design will help combat climate change! David Attenborough has been hammering it home to us for years, even Prince Charles has banged on about...
The Future of Work: Skilling Tomorrow’s EconomyWhat should we be preparing our young people for? This was on the agenda for the recent Commonwealth Business Forum debates (April 2018) The...
As we ‘STEAM’ ahead with new technologies and the move towards mass customisation, what are the implications on the arts and of what will be a dramatic and impending shift...
The joint Food and Textiles event at UEL was a huge success with over 150 delegates attending to hear OFSTED, Department for Education and the exam boards talk about the...
“Once upon a time there was a room in a school where girls were taught how to sew and it was called needlework…” Back then, those young people were taught...
“Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, Grow-Grow.” – The Talmud Popular buzzwords such as ‘eco-friendly’, ‘zero waste’ and ‘green fashion’ are frequently heard...
A recent trip to Greece to discover the methodology of Anastasia Vouyouka used to create perfect fit pattern construction raised the issue of unsustainable fast fashion we have become used...
The fears that EBacc will squeeze Design and Technology out of the curriculum have never been so real! Can you imagine a cohort of primary and secondary school students not...