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This blog is all about representing what we do, how it is done and where it can take us.
The BA (Hons) Textile Crafts course sits within a suite of textile based courses in the Department of Design at The University of Huddersfield. Our sister courses are: Textile Design for Fashion & Interiors, Surface Design and Fashion, Textiles, Buying, Management and Retail.
The course attracts individuals who recognise the importance of craftsmanship, making, textiles, community, contextual relation to practice and drawing.
The students work within the processes of knit, weave, embroidery and applied drawing with print. Within these area's you can focus / combine hand processes such as crochet, tapestry, hand knit, hand stitch, tufting along with digital and mechanical processes of digital printing, computerised embroidery, laser cutting, jacquard, dobby.
The context's which provide focus for practice are: Design, Product and Textile Art. Within these contexts they they choose to develop a practice which provides a depth of knowledge while understanding the need to be diverse and broad in application.
We believe that the notions of Craft (time, heritage, tradition, craftsmanship, the hand) combined with a contemporary creative industry / new technology's can often provide a unique perspective, creative solutions and fresh concepts.
For further information visit www.hud.ac.uk/ada.
Contact: n.l.perren@hud.ac.uk. (Nicola Perren, Course Leader: BA Textile Crafts)
