Art and Design (Textiles)

Course summary

Textiles is part of the GCE Art and Design qualification and is delivered over two years. It is practical in content, involving no formal written examination. However, the work is annotated, and Component 1 includes a 3000-word essay. In the textile design course pupils produce work that involves creation, selection and manipulation across a variety of practices. Disciplines included within the specification are textiles for interiors, fine art textiles and fashion textiles, pupils work in one or more of these disciplines. The A Level course develops further from a GCSE course with pupils building on their repertoire of skills, techniques and interests they have already acquired.