Useful Information
A Level Fashion and Textiles offers students an exciting
opportunity to develop skills in textile processes and apply them to Fashion,
Textile Art and Interior outcomes. You will gain a thorough understanding of the
following techniques: drawing, mark making, machine embroidery, dyeing,
screen-printing, weaving, crochet, macramé, fabric manipulation and
heat-printing. Alongside these textile processes you will develop skills in
constructing fashion garments.
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Course Overview
In the first year students will be introduced to a range of
different textile approaches; stitch, print and constructed. These techniques
will be developed to produce fashion, textile Art and Interior outcomes. During
the second year students will be able to focus on a specialist area such as
fabric manipulation, surface design or constructed textiles for their personal
investigation.
Throughout the course your fashion/textile creations will be
supported by research studying the work of practitioners’ learning from their
techniques and processes. The main purpose of the course is to develop your
ability to appreciate the visual world and enable you to respond in a creative
way through hands on making.
Students are expected to make a financial contribution
towards the cost of materials of £10 at the beginning of each
year.
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Course Highlights
Course Specific Trips & Visit
The College runs a number of educational experiences each
year to enable students to contextualise their learning. These experiences
include trips to galleries, fashion shows, workshops and artist/designer
studios. We also have talks in College from visiting speakers, including a
variety of local designers and artists.
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Career Opportunities & Further Study
Many of our students go on to study Fashion at Art College
or University and do courses including:
• Fashion Design
• Fashion Styling and Promotion
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Fashion Buying and Merchandising
• Fashion Textiles (embroidery, knit or
print)
• Interior Design
• Textile Design
• Surface Design
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Foundation course in Art and Design
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Assessment
The Fashion industry is a vibrant, creative area to work
in.
Take a look at our Fashion course and get a taste for how
Coulsdon College can help steer you towards this exciting career
route.
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Entry Requirements
Students
wishing to include A Levels in their programme need to have (or expect to
achieve) at least five GCSEs at grade 4 or above, including English at grade 4
and mathematics at grade 4.
Students
will need a satisfactory school reference and also meet the following minimum
GCSE requirement:
- Grade 4 in Art or relevant Design Technology
GCSE.
- Students who do not have a GCSE (or equivalent) in Art
and Design or Textiles will be considered on the basis of a portfolio
review.
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