COURSE DESCRIPTION
This innovative new course will offer learners the opportunity to foster and develop artistic skills, techniques, and knowledge, based on the traditional crafts of weaving, embroidery, lace making and felting. Drawing on the rich textile heritage of the Liberties, it will enable students to rediscover and recover traditional practices. It will focus on the importance of sustainability, working with natural fibres and merging heritage with newer models. Offering a both a vocational pathway and progression routes to advanced studies, this course will enable students to appreciate and develop textile crafts, based on ethical and sustainable principles and processes relevant to the 21st Century.