Course Summary
Course Category: PLC (Further Education - FET) - Apply directly to College
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.
Course Details
This course prepares you for working in the following Career Sectors:
What will you study?
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Design Skills
Drawing
Customer Service
Work Experience
Combined Materials
Appreciation of Art, Craft and Design
Computer Aided Draughting (2D)
Woven Textiles
Important
- Colleges may add/remove modules to keep the course updated and to meet demands.
- Almost all PLC courses have a Work Experience module, which requires students to find their own placement in an area directly related to their course.
Progression to CAO Courses
Higher Education Links Scheme (HELS)
This course leads to a QQI Major Award, and provides progression opportunities to a number of Higher Education courses, including those in the CAO.
To view CAO courses to which this award provides a possible progression route, click below:
| QQI Code |
| 5M2208 |
To calculate Points based on your QQI award results, use the PLC Points Calculator.
The Student - Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Creative
Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.
Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.
Realist
Realists are usually interested in 'things' - such as buildings, mechanics, equipment, tools, electronics etc. Their primary focus is dealing with these - as in building, fixing, operating or designing them. Involvement in these areas leads to high manual skills, or a fine aptitude for practical design - as found in the various forms of engineering.
Realists like to find practical solutions to problems using tools, technology and skilled work. Realists usually prefer to be active in their work environment, often do most of their work alone, and enjoy taking decisive action with a minimum amount of discussion and paperwork.
Further Research
National Statistics for this Award (All Ireland)
The following data provides general information about this Award from colleges across Ireland.
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Career Progression
- Weaving machines operator
- Threader and Patrol Controller
- Production Operative- Weaving and Textiles
- Loom or Embroidery Technician
- Heritage Centre Manager
- Textiles Buyer and marketer
- Clothing textile technologist
