Year 7 - Art and design
Exploring printed textiles
An overview of design
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Unit Summary
This unit helps pupils to define design and understand the roles of designers and architects. They will study traditional and contemporary practices and research influential designers. Lessons will enhance understanding, foster creativity, and develop research and critical thinking skills.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to understand how printed textiles are made and can design your own repeat pattern.
Key Notes
- Printed textiles are fabrics with designs or patterns created by printing techniques.
- Printed textiles takes many forms and can be found in our homes through furnishings, clothing, wallpapers.
- Incorporting motif designs is a big part of printed textiles
Vocabulary To Learn
- printing: the process of applying colour, patterns, or images onto a surface like fabric or paper
- pattern: a design in which colours, shapes, lines or forms are repeated
- motif: a repeated shape, image, or idea used in a design
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Printed textile is only for mass production.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Printed textiles are fabrics with designs or patterns created by printing techniques. Printed textiles takes many forms and can be found in our homes through furnishings, clothing, wallpapers.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'printing'
the process of applying colour, patterns, or images onto a surface like fabric or paper.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Printed textile is only for mass production. Correction: Printed textiles can be produced in limited quantities or even one-of-a-kind pieces.
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