The design process as it applies to textiles, from research to realisation and evaluation.
These are the statements the Textiles and Design syllabus makes about Design and the Major Textiles Project. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
The stages of the design process, and the research that makes a design decision defensible.
Developing a project proposal, design inspiration and the plan that makes it achievable.
Manufacturing the item and evaluating it honestly against its own criteria.
Where design ideas come from, and turning an inspiration into a brief with testable criteria.
The tension between what an item must do and how it must look, and how designers resolve it.
Blocks, adaptation and fitting, and the relationship between flat pattern and three-dimensional garment.
Recording decisions and modifications so that the process can be evaluated rather than reconstructed.
Testing a finished item against its brief, and identifying what would change in a second version.
Estimating materials, time and cost, and the project decisions that follow when they exceed the plan.
Selecting fabric for drape, structure and durability, and testing before cutting.
HSC Textiles and Design - Written Paper Shape is 40 marks in 90 minutes. Questions on Design and the Major Textiles Project are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Textiles and Design uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Design and the Major Textiles Project opens the Textiles and Design course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Textiles and Design dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.