10TEX - Technology Textiles
10TEX Course Description Recommended Prior LearningYear 9 Fashion and Design module or similar textiles experience is useful but not required. Most important are a passion for being hands on and motivated to learn.
Students will learn about fashion drawing, screen printing and other applied design methods, pattern and fabric knowledge, basic construction techniques using a sewing machine and other specialist equipment. These will enable students to use a design process to investigate real problems or opportunities and consider principals of kaitiakitanga/sustainability, to develop creative high-quality textile outcomes.
Learning Areas:
Year 10 Option Modules, Technology
Assessment Information
Students will be working at levels 4 and towards level 5 of the Technology Curriculum
1TEX - Level 1 Technology Textiles
Career PathwaysPatternmaker, Artist, Tailor/Dressmaker, Textile Process Operator, Retail Sales Assistant, Cutter, Fashion Designer, Sewing Machinist, Graphic Designer, Interior Designer, Industrial Designer, Visual Merchandiser, Upholsterer, Garment Technician
Contributions and Equipment/StationeryStudents will need to provide their own materials for take home projects they design.