Year 8 - Art and design
Exploring dyeing
Textiles and the creative industries
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Unit Summary
This unit starts by offering pupils insights into diverse career opportunities within the creative industries, looking at Fashion in more detail. It leads into a textiles unit exploring different elements of textiles and fabric manipulation
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explore pattern through Shibori techniques.
Key Notes
- Dyeing is the process of applying colour to textiles, fibres, or materials using natural or synthetic dyes
- There are many dyeing traditions, including: Shibori in Japan, Batik in Indonesia and Tie-dye in Africa and the US
- By using natural dyes you can achieve a range of colours
- You can use resist techniques to create patterns in the materials
Vocabulary To Learn
- Shibori: a traditional Japanese method of folding, twisting, or binding fabric before dyeing
- resist: when parts of the fabric resist dye due to being tightly folded or bound
- pattern: a design that repeats
- dye: coloured substances used to change the colour of materials like fabric
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Tie-dye is a modern European technique
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Dyeing is the process of applying colour to textiles, fibres, or materials using natural or synthetic dyes. There are many dyeing traditions, including: Shibori in Japan, Batik in Indonesia and Tie-dye in Africa and the US.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'Shibori'
a traditional Japanese method of folding, twisting, or binding fabric before dyeing.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Tie-dye is a modern European technique. Correction: Tie-dye or similar forms, such as Bandhani from India, originates from many different regions around the world and exists in multiple forms and styles. Tie-dye is a global textile technique that has existed for thousands of years.
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