In person | 6 hours | Banbury
Essential Textiles Manufacture Skills
Essential Manufacturing Skills: Mastering Textile Construction Techniques An Essential Sewing & Making Skills Course for Teachers of GCSE & A Level Fashion & Textiles for both Art & Design and D&T. In Partnership with Design & Technology Association, this is a new course from the Textile Skills Centre hosted at D&TA Centre in Banbury and with support from Janome UK.
In-person
6 hours
Beginner level
ECT/NQT's, trainee teachers, technicians & those self-funding.
Discounts available - Please contact us for more information.
This is a totally practical day learning and practicing a variety of sewing and making skills and threading and trouble shooting sewing machine faults.
This course is open to teachers, technicians and support staff in the textiles classroom.
This course is aimed at D&T and Fashion & Textiles teachers who are either new to teaching, support staff such as classroom assistants and technicians, or those who want to learn and add to their existing skills.
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Learn and practice essential manufacturing skills that will enhance your teaching.
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Develop learning from KS3, creating independent, confident and enthusiastic learners at KS4/5, giving them the technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world.
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Gain knowledge and skills that will enable you to teach students to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users.
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Acquiring new skills and knowledge to give you confidence in your teaching.
What to expect on the day:
- Learn, practice and create a range of new and exciting techniques related to relevant artists and designers
- How to link a variety of techniques to artists through creative practical workshops
- Looking at both historical and contemporary textile artists, fine artists and fashion designers
- Understand how to develop knowledge of artists from KS3 onwards, creating independent, confident and enthusiastic learners at KS4/5.
- Innovative ways in which students can explore, investigate and express ideas through mark making related to their primary sources and relating the right primary source to their artists.
- Techniques and processes across all areas of study incl. constructed, printed, digital and fashion.
- Links to refined ideas and final outcomes
- Looking at easily achievable themes.
- We will also look at artists annotation/evaluation
- Innovative use of the heat press.
Links to KS4 art & design specifications
What you can take back to school:
What is special about the Essential Manufacturing Skills Course?
More information
All of the Textile Skills Centre events must be booked and paid for in advance. The Textiles Skills Centre uses Cademy to automate the bookings via credit card and invoice/BACS.
When you book you will receive by email a booking confirmation only. If you need further assistance with payment then please contact us by email or phone.
Further information on the course will be sent to the 'booker' nearer to the time of the event.
It is VERY important that the person who books the course supplies your (attendee) full name and PERSONAL EMAIL, so that we are able to send you joining instructions and further details. If we only receive the ‘bookers’ email address, we have found that this delays information getting to you, or information is not passed on.
If you have any queries, please email us at: info@textileskillscentre.com, and include your phone number and/or email so that we can contact you easily.
Hear from Dawn
Course developer & leader
Dawn Foxall
Dawn Foxall has 35+ years’ experience in the textiles and garment industry including design consultant, schools presenter and resources developer for EMTEX; Fashion lecturer and programme developer at various UK Universities and FE colleges; course presenter for D&T Association, Key Stage Developments (KSD), SFE and other course providers.
Dawn was a co-founder of Liv.co.uk (2006-2014) , where she managed design, buying and sourcing from Fairtrade, organic suppliers in India and Egypt. She has since worked with brands such as LUSH Soaps and Weleda, sourcing ethical products and consulting for young designers and start-ups. In 2017 she launched her own knitwear brand FOXOLOGY designing and producing sustainably sourced collections.
In 2015 Dawn set up the Textiles Skills Centre (formerly ‘Academy’) supporting textile teachers, delivering workshops and events. She continues to teach pattern cutting at various education and commercial establishments, as well as for Textiles Skills Centre and also drafts patterns and consults for industry.
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