About the course
Our Costume with Textiles BA(Hons) course offers a fresh approach to costume design. Working from classic and contemporary texts, you’ll investigate costume design, textiles and construction techniques to give you a thorough grounding in all aspects of costume.
Why study Costume with Textiles?
- Explore experimentation in costume design and illustration, textile design, advanced pattern cutting and construction techniques, bespoke garment fitting and costume realisation.
- Have the opportunity to develop professional costume skills such as text/music/character analysis, visual and contextual research methods, presentation practice and applying reflection and evaluation to your work.
- Our design, construction, and textiles studios are home to facilities that help bring your ideas to life including computer-aided design (CAD), and traditional and contemporary embroidery and printing techniques including handcrafting, laser cutting and digital printing. Our dyeing, printing, embroidery, and construction workrooms have specialist equipment so you can work on surface textile techniques and sophisticated costume construction methods.
Reasons to study
- Real-world experience and placement opportunities in theatre, film and TV. Previous placements include: Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC and Opera Australia.
- Develop your own practice through a range of briefs to establish a personal identity, independent research and interpretation of script analysis, development of costume concepts and designs.
- Learn in the state of the art £30m Barbara Hepworth Building with design, costume construction and textiles studios and print and embroidery workrooms.
Course detail
Year 1
Core modules:
- Introduction to Costume Construction
- Introduction to Textiles for Costume
- Introduction to Critical and Contextual Studies
- Introduction to Costume Design and Illustration
Year 2
Core modules:
- Costume Design and Illustration
- Textiles for Costume
- Costume Construction
Option modules:
- Global Popular Cinema: Hollywood and Beyond
Year 3 - optional placement year
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