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Year 8 - Art and design

Exploring print design

Textiles and the creative industries

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 understand how to use Tataki-zome to make a botanical print.

Key Notes

  • Printing with botanical forms allows artists to create environmentally friendly art.
  • Printing techniques create unique textures that are difficult to achieve with other techniques.
  • Artists use culturally traditional techniques to connect with the past whilst adding their own style.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • Tataki-zome: an ancient Japanese print technique where plants are pounded to transfer patterns. Translates to "pounded dye" in Japanese
  • botanical: containing leaves, flowers and plants
  • composition: arranging shapes and space in your artwork.
  • hammer dyeing: a technique where you use plants to make prints by gently hammering them onto fabric or paper

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • In Tataki-zome, you should hammer the leaves and flowers as hard as possible to get the best results.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Printing with botanical forms allows artists to create environmentally friendly art. Printing techniques create unique textures that are difficult to achieve with other techniques.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'Tataki-zome'

an ancient Japanese print technique where plants are pounded to transfer patterns. Translates to "pounded dye" in Japanese.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: In Tataki-zome, you should hammer the leaves and flowers as hard as possible to get the best results. Correction: Hammering too hard can damage the fabric or crush the plant too much, causing it to bleed or smudge. In Tataki-zome, it's important to tap gently and evenly so the natural colours and delicate shapes of the plants transfer clearly and beautifully.

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