I recently attended a Fabric Arts workshop thanks for grant money from Perkins. I am ever so thankful that our content area has a grant program like Perkins. This year, we aligned the FACS curriculum in beadwork to the national standards and differentiate between the art curriculum(i.e. modified the course so it better reflects our content area’s focus on textiles). Next year the course will be titled “Textile Arts”. There are many options to engage students in learning about this but limiting the options to something that is feasible to do in a classroom and is cost effective is difficult to understand unless you try it first. So, with the grant money, I attended a two day workshop filled with 10 different techniques. I learned so much within these two days, my head hurt! However, there were definitely techniques I knew I would NOT want to have students do. Some were just too messy and some were very expensive.
Things I learned that I will definitely be applying to textile arts class:
1. How to make silk paper (strong enough to sew into a project)
2. Monoprinting – using cardboard, potato sacks, chicken wire, household goods) to create a printed image onto fabric
3. Dynaflow – watercolor textile paint to create your own fabric
4. Image Transfer – using acrylic gel medium transferring images on transparencies to fabric)
5. Fabric Beads – using WunderUnder on the backside of any fabric (store purchased OR created using dynaflow) and roll into beads to put on projects or make into jewelry!
6. Lutrador (upholstery filler in vehicles) - so thick it is indestructible and can be sewn down the middle and create a children’s book!
7. Discharge/Bleach – Using stencils to change the image of the fabric.
Overall, it was a fantastic two days! I learned a lot of techniques that I can incorporate into my classroom next year that will help students explore textile arts! I can’t wait to go to more classes and further my learning of this topic.
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