Course Title: Design and produce woven tapestry products
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2010
Course Code: VART5915C
Course Title: Design and produce woven tapestry products
School: 350T Fashion & Textiles
Campus: Brunswick Campus
Program: C5213 - Diploma of Textile Design and Development
Course Contact : Pat Jones
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99259159
Course Contact Email:Pat.Jones@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Cresside Collette tel. (03) 9925 9225 cresside.collette@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 120
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
This course is assessed and delivered asaclustered project with LMTTD5008A Develop textile designs and specifications
Students must enrol in both units to complete assessment tasks
Course Description
This unit covers the skills and knowledge required to develop designs and produce woven tapestry products to meet a specified design brief.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
LMTTD5002A Design and produce woven tapestry products |
Element: |
1. Develop woven tapestry product design. |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Design requirements and specifications are interpreted from brief and elements of design are analysed. |
Element: |
2. Plan production of woven tapestry design sample |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Technical aspects of production are identified |
Element: |
3. Produce woven tapestry design sample. |
Performance Criteria: |
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Element: |
4. Evaluate design and production processes. |
Performance Criteria: |
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Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
In this studio based course students will -
Interpret and analyse a design brief and develop designs for woven tapestry products such as historical research samples, miniature and shaped tapestries, community tapestries and commissions specific to public or private spaces. These may have interior applications as domestic objects and wall pieces. Designs may be developed using manual or computer aided design tools and may be conducted in individual or team related activities. The work will be conducted according to OH&S practices and in recognition of sustainable practice.
Application of skills
This unit requires that the student –
• Understands and analyses the design brief
• Communicates design ideas for feedback from instructor
• Conducts own research in a methodical manner
• Documents the process
• Plans and organises the safe and effective use of materials
• Sets up and uses equipment safely
• Produces tapestry weaving of technical merit
• Monitors production process and adjusts for best outcome
• Analyses and evaluates work produced to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Assesses finished product against design specifications
Teaching Schedule
1. | Introduction and discussion of course outcomes, assessment requirements and research methods. Product design brief introduced. OHS considerations. PPT presentation on Historical Tapestry |
Technical folder requirement. Visual Research |
2 | Develop woven product based on Historical methods. Design woven product. |
Observation |
3 | Technical aspects of production planned and implemented. OHS considerations. | Observation. |
4 | Production of 1st tapestry commenced. OHS – sitting height, light conditions | Sample, observation |
5 | Production of 1st tapestry continued. | Sample |
6 | Production of 1st tapestry continued | Sample |
7 | Production of 1st tapestry completed and evaluated. Process documented. |
Technical folder Sample completed. |
8 |
Production of 2nd tapestry commenced, designed from project brief. OHS requirements observed |
Sample |
9 | Production of 2nd tapestry continued | Sample |
10 | Production of 2nd tapestry continued | Sample |
11 |
Production of 2nd tapestry completed and evaluated Process evaluated |
Sample |
12 |
Production of 3rd tapestry commenced , designed from project brief. OHS requirements odserved |
Sample |
13 | Production of 3rd tapestry continued | Sample |
14 | Production of 3rd tapestry continued | Sample |
15 |
Production of 3rd tapestry completed and evaluated. Process documented |
Completed sample, technical folder. |
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Completion of tapestries, presentation and mounting. Required documentation and presentation completed |
Tapestry samples Technical file containijg documentation Folio of finished tapestries |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Kybalova,Ludmila.Coptic Textiles, Paul Hamlyn, London.1967 |
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Hoskins, Nancy Arthur.The Coptic Tapestry Albums. Skein publications, USA, 2004. |
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Freeman, Margaret. The Hunt of the Unicorn. The Cloisters, Metropolitan museum of Art, New York. i976 |
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Wingfield, Digby George Frederick, The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, London, H.M.S.O. 1974 |
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Verlet, The Book of Tapestry, Octopus Books, London, 1978. |
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Phillips, Barty, Tapestry, Phaidon Press, 1994. |
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Menz, Christopher, Morris and Co., Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2002. |
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Stone- Miller, Rebecca, To Weave for the Sun, London, Thames and Hudson. 1994 |
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Blomberg, Nancy J. Navaho Textiles, University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 1988. |
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
DETAILS PROVIDED IN CLASS SESSION
Assessment Tasks
Overview of assessment.
To achieve successful completion of this course, students must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of Competency.
Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over a range of assessment tasks.
Assessment will incorporate a variety of methods including technical folder, documentation, and practical problem solving. Students are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met.
Details of graded assessment for folios will be provided with Course Guides
Assessment Tasks
To achieve competency in this course students will be expected to submit the following -
Technical folder- a comprehensive folder containing class notes, individual research into tapestry, and documentation of design and weaving processes.
Three final woven design products – chosen from the following categories –
1. Research and sampling of Historical tapestry techniques chosen from Coptic, Mediaeval, Classical or primitive weaving styles.
2. Design and sampling of a tapestry commission for a specific space, public or private.
3. A miniature tapestry.
4. A shaped tapestry.
5. A tapestry artwork (exhibition piece) of own design.
Twenty hours weaving on a Community tapestry constituting work integrated learning may be substituted for one of these categories.
Students will be expected to undertake in class discussion of the medium and communicate methods and production of final work.
Assessment on OHS
Setting up of workspace with attention to OHS requirements and awareness of safety factors when working with others.
Assessment Matrix
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