BA Hons Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors at Bath School of Art and Design: Integrating traditional craft skills into textile design with new materials and techniques.
Alumni Anna is an embroidery designer of nine years standing. She is head embroiderer at Jenny King Embroidery and involved in design, development and production.
The first years could spin a yarn but better still they are inventing their own.
Using found materials and spoils from the scrapstore the students are creating fantasy yarns and threads. From this experiment they will construct exciting 3D surfaces and structures
An occasional round up of the fabulous facilities here at the School of Design in Bath UK
First off…
Embroidery and the fabulous ZSK INDUSTRIAL machines
Once hand skills have been mastered and projects discussed, induction into the industrial machines commences.
Louise has set the workshop up to go……
Joy has set up the domestic and specialist machines in the embroidery workshop.Here examples inspire development of techniques and processes
All kinds of projects can be completed on the domestic machines with inspiration,help and guidance Students settle down to complete their workand of course they occasionally need running repairs
Other machines include the Irish machine, the Cornelli, the Leather machine and the Tufter; each machine offering a different process to investigate
Come and see what they do and of course what you can do with them….
In:site Festival 2019. September 2019 which took place in Birmingham UK city centre, in the grounds of St Philip’s Cathedral.
The public engaged with a selected group of designer/ makers from across the UK, and beyond, who were showing, demonstrating and sharing their craft skills.
They worked with clay, fabric, yarn and wood/acrylic. I was thrilled to meet up with this year’s graduate Ryoji Morimoto before he returns to Japan next week. ✈️ He had produced such beautiful, coloured, engaging prints that it drew people in to have a closer 👀 . They immediately began to stitch their favourite good luck symbol onto a working quilt. The very best of luck 🍀 Ryoji on your career path as it unfolds in Japan Thank you for being the most generous, kind, talented and thoughtful person during your three years with us in Bath. Our loss is 🇯🇵 gain.