WSA Fashion & Textiles Evening Course 2024 (Ages 14-18)

Join us for the Winchester School of Art Fashion & Textiles Evening Course!

During this course you will explore some of the many different techniques that fashion and textile artists use within their practice, building your own portfolio.

The beginning of the course will focus on fashion, with students selecting a garment to work on for a series of weeks. They will learn different techniques to add to the garment including sashiko, borrow, weaving, and decorative embroidery. Students will then style and photographs these garments in our flash studio, before developing the images into fashion editorials.

The second half of the course will focus on the textile techniques of soft sculpture and crochet. For each technique one week will explore methods, and planning, and the other will focus on the development of a sampler using this method.

All basic materials needed will be provided, though there are some instances where students can bring in their own items if they would like to.

Course dates and times:

April 30th

May 7th, 14th, 21st

June 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th

July 2nd, 9th

If you are unable to make all of these dates, please contact our tutor Georgia ([email protected] about attending).

4:45pm - 6:30pm

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Week 1 - Binding lookbooks/portfolios

Students to bind a lookbook/portfolio to work in throughout the course

Identify inspirational themes/designers to reference throughout course.

• Hannah Batsel
• Rachel Hazell
  

Week 2 - Garment alteration - techniques and planning

Learning different techniques to visibly mend and alter garments.

• Decorative embroidery
• Sashiko/boro
• Darning/weave
  

Week 3 - Garment alteration & development

Select and plan garment to be developed, then begin working on piece, adding chosen technique to garment.

Week 4 - Garment alteration & editorial planning & development

Finish garment development.

Research and plan editorial image style and aesthetic, to be photographed the following week.

Week 5 - Fashion editorial photoshoot

Photograph garments in flash studio, using inspiration and plans developed the previous week.

Week 6 - Editorial development

Develop fashion editorial digitally, using images created in previous week.

Week 7 Soft Sculpture – techniques, planning and pattern cutting

Explore soft sculpture artists, and techniques before planning own sculpture and drafting pattern pieces to create work. Being if time.

• Mister Finch
• Ashley Gibson
  

Week 8 - Soft Sculpture – sampler development

Develop soft sculpture piece.

Week 9 - Crochet techniques

Explore basic crochet techniques, to gain skills before developing granny squares in the following session:

• Slip knot
• Chain
• Slip stitch
• Single crochet
• Double crochet
• Treble crochet
• Puff stick
• Crochet together
  

Weel 10 - Granny square development

Select granny square style from different options, and begin practicing creation of square. Develop squares throughout the session.

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For more information please contact Georgia (the Tutor) via [email protected].

Host or Publisher Craig Wadman - Winchester School of Art