13TEX - Textiles - NCEA Level 3

Textiles Design has evolved rapidly over recent years to become a varied, creative course within Technology, including sustainability and environmental consideration. 

This course continues to develop textile technology skills: through conceptual design, freehand sketching, pattern orientation and digital textiles. These are explored through researching and refining ideas to answer a brief, including business concepts for the production of a final outcome.

 Fabric manipulation with a range of fabrics, trialing a varied range of applied design skills, including designing and digitalising on a computer and then embroidering out using a specialised machine.

This course is an ‘approved subject’ for University Entrance.  

Scholarship in Design and Visual Communication/Textiles: Students who enter Scholarship are required to demonstrate a higher level of critical and creative design thinking. 

• Applied design and Complex procedures used in making a garment of choice.

• Includes a trip to the Auckland Museum and Winter Gardens to collect visual inspiration for the Internal and External assessments.

• Conceptual design, answering a brief for a character from a Play/Film/Book or Game.

• Design Visual Communication, an External assessment