New Course at Liberties College: Textiles - Heritage, Craft, Revival and Renewal

Posted on June 19, 2020

Title: Textiles – Heritage, Craft, Revival and Renewal (L5 Design)

This innovative new course will offer learners the opportunity to foster and develop artistic skills, techniques, and knowledge, based on the traditional crafts of weaving, embroidery, lace making and felting. Drawing on the rich textile heritage of the Liberties, it will enable students to rediscover and recover traditional practices. It will focus on the importance of sustainability, working with natural fibres and merging heritage with newer models. Offering a both a vocational pathway and progression routes to advanced studies, this course will enable students to appreciate and develop textile crafts, based on ethical and sustainable principles and processes relevant to the 21st Century.

Awarding Body: QQI

Award Title and Code: Design 5M2208

Duration: 1 Year.

Key Modules:

5N0784 Design Skills

5N1862 Drawing

5N0972 Customer Service

5N1356 Work Experience

5N0764 Combined Materials

5N0755 Appreciation of Art, Craft and Design

5N1604 Computer Aided Draughting (2D)

5N1864 Woven Textiles

Employment Prospects

Graduates may avail of the following career paths on completion of course:

- Weaving machines operator

- Threader and Patrol Controller

- Textiles Buyer

- Interiors Showroom Manager

- Clothing textile technologist

- Textile Marketer

- Production Operative- Weaving and Textiles

- Loom Technician

- Technician roles in Art and Design Universities and Institutes of Technology

- Embroidery Technician

- Embroidery Team Leader

- Heritage Centre Manager

- Irish Museums Associations Coordinator Assistant

- Culture|Creative Europe Ireland Officer

- Visitor Services Assistant, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny

Progression Routes:

Students wishing to continue their education and training in the Art and Design area can progress through the QQI Higher Education Access route into the following courses, on successful completion of their award, in Liberties College: