Course detail
Textile workshop 1
FaVU-1TETVAcad. year: 2024/2025
The course is designed as a series of lectures and follow-up practical exercises focused on creating with textile material. Each lecture will thematize the relationship between art and working with textiles. The emphasis is on individual selection of theoretical knowledge and practical activities. Within each class, learners will be introduced to working on industrial, domestic machines. The course will include the opportunity to work in a screen printing workshop in printing and patterning.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The following conditions are set for the award of credit:
- active participation in class (2 permitted unexcused absences) or submission of an assignment based on the assignment in agreement with the teacher.
- submission of completed assignments.
Classes are held in the silk-screen and newly emerging textile workshop of the BUT Faculty of Arts in the hours determined by the schedule. Minimum participation is 85%. Making up for missed lessons takes place after agreement with the teacher in the form of individual consultations.
Aims
The aim of the Textile Design 1 course is to provide students with a basic orientation to key concepts, concepts and practical exercises in working with textile materials. It will familiarise them with why some works are seen as art and some only as craft and what other criteria can be used to label a work as art. Practical exercises will focus on technological practices related to traditional textile techniques, sustainability, recycling, upcycling in textile art work. The course will enhance learners' ability to think about textiles in their creative work. Emphasis will be placed on proper technological practices in textile and apparel making.
Completion of the course should help students to orient themselves in the field of textile design. In the environment of contemporary art theory and practice with references to contemporary art. The course will deepen the ability to think interdisciplinarily, reflecting for inspiration in one's own work.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
ARTLOVÁ, Adéla. Vše, co jste chtěli vědět o módě. V Brně: Jota, 2018. ISBN 978-80-7565-330-7.
BAUGH, Gail. Encyklopedie textilních materiálů: [příručka módního návrháře]. [Praha]: Slovart, c2012. ISBN 978-80-7391-616-9.
GANDERTON, Lucinda. Vyšívání: galerie stehů. Přeložil Ivana NUHLÍČKOVÁ. Praha: Ikar, 2016. ISBN 978-80-249-3034-3.
HANZLÍKOVÁ, Emma a Markéta VINGLEROVÁ, ed. Pocta suknu: textil v kontextu umění. Humpolec: Nadační fond 8smička, 2018. ISBN 978-80-907185-0-0.
Items: Is Fashion Modern, 2017 by Paola Antonelli, Michelle Fisher, Luke Baker Anna Burckhardt, Stephanie Kramer, Mei Mei Rado, Jennifer Tobias, ISBN:978-163-3450-36-3.
Learn Skills to Sew Like a Professional: practical tailoring methods and techniques by Naoko Doumeki, Shihoko Makino, Published 2019 by Nippan ISBN: 978-486-5050-78-3.
LEWITZKY, Hans, Georg STAPEL, Ludmila KYBALOVÁ a Karel LAPKA. Bytový textil: dekorační tkaniny, potahové tkaniny, záclony, koberce. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1960. Řada textilní literatury.
MANNOVÁ, Marta. Vyšivky. Bratislava: Praca, 1979. Biblioteka praktičeskich posobij izdatel'stva Praca.
Natural Processes in Textile Art: From Rust-Dyeing to Found Objects, Alice Fox 2015, ISBN: 978-1849-942-98-0.
No Patterns Needed: DIY Couture from Simple Shapes – Rosie Martin,Laurende King Publishing Ltd, London, 2016 ISBN 978-1-78067-828-3.
SEIVEWRIGHT, Simon. Módní návrhářství: inspirace a tvorba. Brno: Computer Press, 2010. Základy designu. ISBN 978-80-251-2971-5.
Sew Everything Workshop, Diana Rupp, Workman Publishing, US 2007, ISBN 978-0-7611-3973-7.
Street Craft, Riikka Kuittinen, Thomas Hudson, 2015, ISBN:978-050-0517-84-0.
SYMONOVÁ, Jarmila a Alena DOLEŽALOVÁ. Učíme se šít. Ilustroval Markéta PŘÍBRAMSKÁ. Praha: Výbor československých žen, 1955. Příručka časopisu Žena a móda.
Textile Collage using collage techniques in textile art, Mandy Pattullo PAVILION BOOKS 2016, ISBN: 978-184-9943-74-.
Textiles The Whole Story Beverly Gordon, Thames Hudson 2011, ISBN: 978-0-500-29113-9.
The Wild Dyer: A Maker's Guide to Natural Dyes with Projects to Create and Stitch, Princeton Architectural Press, 2019, ISBN 978-161-6898-41-0.
VELÍKOVÁ, Eva. Oděvní technologie: pro učební obor Krejčí, Krejčová. Praha: Informatorium, 2000-. ISBN 80-86073-59-9.
Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art (Hardcover) Phaidon Editors, Jenelle Porter, Phaidon Press Ltd,United Kingdom, March 2019, ISBN 978-0-7148-7661-0.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme VUM_B Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme DES_B Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme VUM_B Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective
3 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Introduction – contemporary textile art. Textile terminology and technology.
2. Working with sewing machines, hand sewing and embroidery pattern making.
3. Fast fashion. Ethical dimension of textile creation – environment and cultivation of textile fibres.
4. Principles of sustainable fashion.
5. Hands-on exercises focused on self-creation.
6. Fundamentals of Textiles: 21st Century Materials.
7. Textile image / collage – clothing, object practical exercises.
8. Textile image / collage – clothing, object of practical exercise.
9. Textile image / collage – clothing, object of practical exercise.
10. Textile image/collage – clothing, object of practical exercise.
11. Completion of practical tasks.
12. Completion of practical tasks.
13. Completion of practical tasks.
Credit week – final lesson:
The learner will submit a practical assignment according to the assignment formulated in the first third of the course. Each project will be discussed with the instructor.