Textiles - Fashion Fundamentals
What's it all about?
Students develop their knowledge of how to design and the vocabulary and skills associated with the Fashion Design Industry. Students experience a range of techniques needed to design and re-purpose/produce garments. This then enables them to evaluate suitability of materials, techniques and design of products to suit the function.
What type of things will I do?
Hand sew, machine sewing and tie dying.
What will I learn?
Design your own Fashion Logo/Labell.
Learn the design process to enable successful hand drawn/ICT generated Fashion Designs.
Basic machine sewing skills.
Natural and Synthetic Fibers.
Fabric Design.
Re-Cycled/Sustainability in Fashion Design.
What are the possible pathways?
University and TAFE courses in Textiles, Fashion, Visual Merchandising.
YEAR | COURSES OFFERED |
YEAR 9 | Textiles – Fashion Fundamentals |
YEAR 10 | Fashion Textiles Textiles Design |
YEAR 11 - 12 | Product Design and Technology – Textiles VET Certificate II in Applied Fashion |
Why choose this subject?
I am interested in pursuing a career in Fashion Design or Design industries that use textiles as a medium.
I want to learn about surface embellishment.
I enjoy stencilling.
I want to learn how to sew and use a sewing machine.