City & Guilds
Qualifications
CITY & GUILDS COURSE DETAILS
You can find all of the relevant City & Guilds course documentation here, in addition to our Moodle site.
These documents and handbooks cover all levels from beginner to advanced and include the following diplomas and certificates. Just click on a category to find out more information:
Please note: all courses contain the generic 'Design for Craft: Unit 1'. Details of this and all other units are provided in the PDF documents below, in the relevant sections.
As part of our service, we offer you the unique opportunity to customize our courses according to your own needs and objectives. Whether you plan to create dresses, trousers, tops, lingerie - anything you want - we will tailor your course to you!
City & Guilds Certificate in Fashion:
UNIT 104 - SEWING MACHINE SKILLS
This unit offers a development of practical sewing skills in a broad range:
* Safe use of tools, equipment and materials
* Functions, controls and features of different types
of sewing machines
* Producing a variety of samples using a sewing machine
* Selection of needles, fabrics and threads
* Practical and decorative stitches
* Accessorising
* A range of sewing machine and hand sewing skills
* Different techniques including: patchwork quilting,
piping around a corner, zip insertion, buttonholes, twin
needles, embroidery, parallel stitching and many more.
City & Guilds Diploma:
CRAFT SKILLS for CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
The beginner, intermediate and advanced qualifications offer a development of skills, progressing through:
* Techniques, materials, tools, and equipment
* Safe working practices
* Craft-making process
* Time management
* Design process
* Craft sector
* Plus other optional units, promoting professional craft-related business skills
City & Guilds Certificate in Design and Craft:
TEXTILES
This certificate offers a development of skills, progressing through:
* Sampling techniques
* Textile decoration
* Hand embroidery
* Machine embroidery
* Patchwork quilting
* Hand-knitting
* Felt making
* Sewing machine skills
* Appliqué skills
* 3-D Felting, quilting, and machine embroidery
City & Guilds Certificate in Design and Craft:
FASHION WEAR
* Colour properties and mixing techniques
* Colour association, symbolism and experiments
* Creating manmade and natural textures
* Mark making and developing lines
* Exploring shape and form
* Pattern making, marking and cutting
* Fabrics and haberdashery
* Decorative techniques
* Tacking, fitting and adjusting
* Making up, pressing and neatening
* Fabric and haberdashery characteristics
City & Guilds Certificate in Design and Craft:
PATTERN CUTTING
This certificate offers a development of skills, progressing through:
* Design principles
* Understanding and using colour
* Line and mark making
* Shape and form
* Surface textures
* Body measurements and tools
* Scale drawings
* Darts and fullness disposal
* Seams and style lines
* Adapting blocks
* Collars, cuffs, pockets, etc
* Design sketches and drawings
* Marking up patterns
City & Guilds Certificate in Design and Craft:
THEATRE COSTUME
This certificate offers a development of skills, progressing through:
* Design principles
* Understanding and using colour
* Line and mark making
* Shape and form
* Theatre themes and history
* Figure drawing
* Body measurement
* Develop design ideas
* Fibres and fabrics
* Fabric care
* Safe use of tools and equipment
* Using media and equipment for unique effects
* Garment construction: inc seams, zips, fastenings,
hooks and bars, fullness, darts, gathers and
pleats etc
City & Guilds Certificate in Design and Craft:
TAILORING
This certificate offers a development of skills, progressing through:
* Design principles
* Understanding and using colour
* Line and mark making
* Shape and form
* Surface textures
* Body measurements and tools
* Fabrics characteristics
* Linings, interfacing, and haberdashery
* Safe use of tools and equipment
* Pattern styles for a range of figure shapes
* Adjusting patterns
* Prepare and handle fabrics
* Pressing
* Finishing garments
* Sampling
City & Guilds Certificate in Design and Craft:
CORSETRY
This certificate offers a development of skills, progressing through:
* Design principles
* Understanding and using colour
* Line and mark making * Shape and form
* Theatre themes and history * Figure drawing
* Body measurement
* Develop design ideas for comfort and style
* Handling fabrics * Adjusting patterns
* Garment finishing and care
* Sampling
City & Guilds Certificate in Design and Craft:
MILLINERY
This certificate offers a development of skills, progressing through:
* Design principles
* Understanding and using colour
* Line and mark making * Shape and form
* Surface textures * Head measurement
* Blocking, pressing and stiffening
* Millinery materials and fabrics
* Using tools and equipment
* Wires and ribbons
* Hat styles for range of head shapes
* Making a range of hats in different materials
* Adjusting patterns * Interline hats
* Reducing and enlarging hats * Storing hats
* Sampling
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