Year 9 TECHNOLOGY - Fashion and Textiles Technology

This course is about designing and making products in textiles [fabrics]. It is run in the Textiles room.

In this course students will learn to:

1. Sew by hand
2. Use the sewing machine
3. Understand fabrics and their properties
4. How to follow a user centered design process to design a product
5. How to create a pattern for their own product
6. Be creative

Students make textile items at Year 9, but not garments [clothes]. Students begin learning garment construction in Year 10.

PLEASE NOTE: There will be costs for materials for take home products.