Undergraduate Course: Textiles 1A : What is textiles? (DESI08122)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | What is TEXTILES?
This course provides a series of project briefs, to help students understand what textiles is, and what textiles can be. Students will be introduced to this rich discipline through a series of 3 projects, problems and challenges, encouraging them to ask questions and seek answers through practical and conceptual exploration of the textiles discipline and associated art and design fields. |
| Course description |
This course introduces a range of core competencies and understanding relating to Textiles, which will form a foundation to enable and sustain subsequently more focused and self-directed study in the subject. There is a strong practical focus to all activities.
Projects will help students experiment with a range of inspiring and unexpected approaches to design, as a means to develop and enrich ideas. Drawing will be developed as a language to convey possibilities and solutions for design projects, in the context of textile design.
Research: Students will be introduced to a range of approaches to gathering relevant visual and textual information, as a means to inform and inspire new ways of thinking, making and drawing. These will be recorded in a variety of formats including sketchbooks, digital and analogue research files, and drawing portfolios. The research will also provide a basis for understanding the larger framework for the students' future aspirations as a designer.
Practical exploration: Using drawing in its widest sense, as a means to explore ideas, tasks will encourage individuals and groups to explore and experiment with colour, texture, pattern, materials, image and form through a series of hands-on approaches. The understanding and increasingly sophisticated approach and use of materials is an important aspect of textiles and will underpin all practical activities.
By questioning, exploring, discovering and discussing findings through the practical activities and the focused research, students will be encouraged to begin to make sense of the dual roles of research and practical exploration in the generation of original ideas to suit a range of project briefs and themes.
They will subsequently be encouraged to reflect and re-consider intentions for further development before submission at the end of the course.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | If this course is Core to your programme, you will automatically be enrolled. For all other students, including Design students, the course is open on a first come, first served basis until the course is full. This course may have limited availability for non-Design students. Please contact the Course Organiser if you wish to enrol. |
| Additional Costs | Materials costs which will vary depending on the students individual method of production but could be approximated at £35 for this course. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2026/27, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 7,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 36,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
150 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
SUMMATIVE Assessment(s)
Portfolio (100%) submitted at the end of the course and evidencing all Learning Outcomes.
Learning Outcomes are weighted as LO1 33% LO2 33% and LO3 34%
All Learning Outcomes must be passed to pass the course.
SUMMATIVE Assessment details
This 100% portfolio submission is formed of 3 project briefs.
Resit info
The resubmission assessment is the same as the original submission for this course. |
| Feedback |
Feedback
FORMATIVE
Formative reviews will take place at the end of each of the projects delivered during the course. Students will then be given the opportunity to further develop and complete each project before the summative assessment. This will be supported by student self-review and peer-review. In addition, feedback will be provided throughout all project delivery. This will take the form of individual verbal feedback during class time and through group presentations facilitating discussion and additional feedforward points.
SUMMATIVE
Individual feedback and grades will be provided via Learn VLE. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an inquisitive exploration of a range of approaches to textiles, recorded and presented in an appropriate format.
- Explore materials, themes and imagery associated with textiles through practical experimentation.
- Communicate an increasingly individual approach to drawing, research, and idea development centered around the discipline of textiles.
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Reading List
Cole, D. The Pattern Sourcebook: A Century of Surface Design. Laurence King (2009)
Kettle,A & McKeating, J. Hand stitch perspectives. Bloomsbury (2012)
Kinnersley-Taylor, J Dyeing and screen printing on textiles. A & C Black, 2011 - Mellor S. & Elffers J. Textile Designs. New edition, Thames & Hudson (2002)
Nicol, K Embellished, A & C Black (2012)
Quinn, B. Textile Visionaries: Innovation and Sustainability in Textile Design. Laurence King (2013)
Thomas, M. Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, Hodder& Staughton Ltd (1974)
Woolfe, C. The Art of Manipulating Fabric. Krause Publications; 2nd edition (2003)
Additional reading and specific websites associated with each project will be attached to all briefs. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Personal and Intellectual Autonomy - Versatility in responding to challenges in new and unfamiliar contexts
Research and Enquiry - Creative approaches to textiles investigations leading to sensitive and well-grounded discovery of approaches and processes within the field
Communication ¿ Skilled and imaginative communication of textiles research, exploration and resolved outcomes |
| Keywords | Textiles,research,colour,pattern,texture,materials,drawing |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mrs Natalie Adamson-Wain
Tel:
Email: nadamson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Barbara Bianchi
Tel: (0131 6)51 5736
Email: barbara.bianchi@ed.ac.uk |
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