Module: FDE5001-20 Introduction to Tailoring

Level: 5

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Emma Askew-Miller

Module Tutor Contact Details: e.askew-miller@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module presents you with the opportunity to further develop specialist cutting and construction through the traditional craft skills of tailoring techniques and to apply your creativity and technical skills to a creative design brief.

2.Outline syllabus:

You will be given a key grounding in different methods and approaches to tailoring and construction techniques, as well as be encouraged to research the background of tailoring, its historical context, and its context within contemporary fashion. You will further develop product development skills as well as analysis and evaluation, adapting designs through a series of toiles.

Through personal research you will also be asked to initiate a creative design concept and produce a tailored outcome to fully resolved toile.

3.Teaching and learning activities:

• Technical demonstrations and taught sessions

• Presentations to staff

• Group and individual tutorials and critical reviews

• Fittings

• Fashion Museum facilitated session

• Personal presentation, documentation of work

• Independent working on directed project work

• Active participation in taught sessions and directed learning.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Portfolio

• % Weighting: 100%