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Costume with Textiles
Costume with Textiles BA(Hons)
Costume with Textiles BA(Hons)

Costume with Textiles BA(Hons)

  • ID:UH440073
  • Level:3-Year Bachelor's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirements

English Requirement  

  • IELTS 6.0 with no lower than 5.5 in any element or equivalent will be considered acceptable

Other Requirements

  • As a centre of creative excellence, we look forward to hearing about your own creative experiments and ambitions through a discussion of your portfolio at interview.

Course Information

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.

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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:

  •  Textiles for Costume
  •  Costume Design and Context
  •  Costume Construction

Year 3 - optional placement year

Final Year
Core modules:

  •  Costume : Research and Development
  •  Costume : Technical
  •  Costume : Major Project
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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

This course aims to help you develop the skills needed for roles such as costume designers and makers for film, opera, theatre, dance and television; textile designers for the creative industries; wardrobe assistants; set designers; illustrators; stylists and teachers. Some companies our graduates have gone on to work with include Angels the Costumiers, The Beamish Museum, Bristol Costume Services, The English National Theatre, Opera North and The Northern Ballet.**

* Percentage of graduates from this course who are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (Unistats 17/18 data, UK domiciled graduates)

Source: **GEMS

Ability to settle

Overseas Student Health Cover

Insurance-Single: 300 GBP/year

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