Spring 2027

Textile Embellishment I

Textile Embellishment I covers historic and contemporary techniques for embellishing textiles, including embroidery, beadwork, and appliqué.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.83 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.85 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Acquire a deepened understanding of the importance of reflection in creative work (learning to pay attention to what you love; what you want to find out; what captures your imagination; and what questions the work suggests).

  • Recognize the value of critical thinking and research as it applies to creative work.

  • Produce a small collection of embellishment samples showing thoughtful experiential engagement with embroidery, beadwork, and fabric collage.

  • Create an original textile work informed by and honoring a textile tradition originating on the African continent.

  • Originate one ambitious, thoughtfully considered work informed by your individual, emerging creative practice, and making use of the embellishment techniques introduced in the class.

  • Demonstrate public presentation skills appropriate to the discussion of creative research.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.83 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.85 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Textile embellishment techniques.
  • African textile traditions.
  • Creative reflection and research.
  • Original textile works and public presentation.

Skills

  • Historic and contemporary textile embellishment techniques, including embroidery, beadwork, and appliqué.
  • Reflection and critical thinking applied to creative work.
  • Creating embellishment samples and an original textile work informed by an African textile tradition.
  • Public presentation of creative research.

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DS 228 · Spring 2027

Textile Embellishment I

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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