Textile Teachers To The Rescue
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...
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Fashion ‘Fit’ For the Future
“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...
The Future Fashion Loop
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...
Skilling Tomorrow’s Economy
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...
Arts & Crafts in the New World…
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...
‘Inspiring Learning’
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...
Sew What? Bringing Textiles Lessons into the 21st Century
“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...
How Green is Your Wardrobe?
“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...
Save the World With a Great Fitting Pattern!
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 Tipping Point For D&T in Schools
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...
CADCAM Through Print
A day investigating Sublimation Printing and Laser Image Transfer, putting it into practice and asking the questions to CADCAM expert Heidi Ambrose-Brown! This the second in the series of workshops practicing and learning...
CADCAM Through Stitch
An exciting opportunity for any textiles lovers to work closely with textiles practitioner Heidi Ambrose-Brown in her own studio. This is the first of a series of workshops practicing and...