Foreign Travel and UK Visits

India: What a fantastic experience (part two)

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Third year student Rhian Beynon is having the most wonderful experiences and making fabulous memories while out in India.

Everyday Rhian is learning new skills, and tradition methods, in textile process.Selected by the British Council Rhian is throughly enjoying this extensive textile programme.
This is such a great start to her 3rd year.
We’re excited to she how all those new skills will be developed and shared in the Autumn.We can’t wait to hear and see the results.

Rhian says “We got a chance to try block printing in jodhpur which was great. They only use natural dyes and some of the blocks were over 500 years old! Such a great experience!
They block print about 25 saris a day each! Such talented people”

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Part 1

Next years final year student Rhian Beynon

Next years final year student Rhian Beynon

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Our students are so enterprising and adventurous.
In fact those are a couple of the attributes we look for at interview!

We are delighted for Rhian Beynon who is ,during the summer break, on a British Council textile programme in India.
Currently in Ahmedabad Rhian is travelling from Mumbai to Delhi.Next stop is Udaipur and Jodhpur.

Rhian says
We have a full packed programme, visiting fashion designers and companies, textile factories, universities, and we have lectures from textile and fashion designers!
We also have visited local artisans and learnt about their handicrafts!We met one artisan and only his family and 3 other families left in India create designs that way! We have also made cultural visits to temples etc, and visited slums etc

It’s Fantastic!!

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as and when she can inform us of her progress.

Have a great time Rhian.
ps You may remember Rhian’s work from this post
https://thatswhatiwanttodo.com/2015/03/14/success-for-rhian/

McQueen @ The V&A

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Sadly we can’t photograph in the magnificent show but we can show you pictures of us taking the sun and having tea! Having a wonderful time with the whole department.

ICELAND

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One of the most satisfying and rewarding trips last year was the study visit to Iceland.Our school collaborated on a joint project with Drexel University USA and we together developed skills offered by both organisations.We shared knowledge in textiles,photography,printmaking,marketing and styling.

Every year we travel and encourage exchange and collaboration.

looking forward to sharing with you our experiences in Japan,Paris,Eindhoven,Poland etc… over the coming weeks.

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 At the Barbican with the 2nd yr students

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Enjoying the show



On the hour

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Twinkling. 1st years in Paris

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Leaving for Paris

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Tomorrow , with the students They are so looking forward to it. Today they are presenting their forecasting and itinerary .

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Yesterday to London

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to catch up and be inspired.photo-22

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Amongst the many places we visted were the Institute of Contemporary Art on the Mall for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries and Julie Verhoeven,photo 1

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photo 4The Photographers Gallery Soho for Edward Steichen

– In High Fashion,The Conde Nast Years and Viviane Sassen Analemma,Fashion Photography 1992-2012.

Off to Paris

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photo-18                                                                                                                  I saw this printed tea towel and thought of our students who are off to research in Paris this coming semester.

Looking at new yarns,innovative fabrics,contemporary print,embroidery, manipulation and forecasting for 2016 the students always have a great time.

USA and Japan

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Here we are in New York USA and Tokyo in Japan visiting design studios and meeting with designers.
Very generously we are shown excellent design practise and future fabric forecasting.

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