Course Contents

1- Prehistoric development in Textile Clothing and Fashion Brief introduction via slides to the following in terms of fiber sources, weaving, printing and sewing: • Early adoption of fibrous apparel • Initial manufacture of clothes • Ancient textiles and clothing • Ancient India • Ancient Egypt • Ancient China • Ancient Japan • The textile trade in the ancient world • Classical antiquity • Iron age Europe 2- Medieval clothing and Textiles • Byzantium: Early Christian Art: Byzantine Art 300 A.D • Early medieval Europe, High middle ages and the rise of fashion 12th-14th century • Changes in fashion and textile design development in Romanesque and Gothic era 3- Renaissance and early modern period • Textile in Renaissance Europe (apparel and upholstery): Renaissance 14th-16th Century-interior, lighting, decoration, dressing, fabric development, printing and dyeing, colour usage, painting, architecture. • Industrial revolution: causes, effects and changes. 4- Baroque, Rococo art, Romanticism and Victorian Era: • Late 18th century-elaborate exaggerated décor of rococo style in terms of furniture design, wall covers, wall paintings, hanging, draperies and the stylized dressings of the era. • Changes in fashion and Textile clothing in the period: over view, causes, importance. • Women's fashion: Gowns, Underwear/ under garment clothing, Shoes, Hairstyles and headgear and Style gallery – 1750–1775 • Men's fashion: Coats, Shirt and stock, Breeches, shoes, and stockings, Hairstyles and headgear. The Macaroni and Style gallery 1750–1775 5- Textile Designers from 1900s: Arts and Crafts Movement, Art Nouveau and Jugendstil. • Textile design development and colour scheming of art nouveau, color contrasts and palettes of fauvism to be applied in modern interior and textiles, textures from expressionism and pointillism as medium for interior and textile renderings. • British Textile Designers: William Morris, Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day, Lindsay Butterfield, Jeffery and Co. Essex and Co. Thomas Wardle and Liberty. • French Textile Designers: Edouard Colonna, Georges de Feure and Eugene Giallard, Hector Guimard, Alphonse Mucha, Emile Allian Seguy and Felix Aubert. • German and Belgium: Bauhaus Art and Deutsche Werkstatten, Henry van de Velde, Hermann Obrist, Paul Poiret, Atelier Martine, Raoul Dufy, Otto Eckmann, Deutsche Werkstatten and Peter Behrens. • Design collection, style, colour palette, inspirations and pattern setting. • Textile Designer from Austria: Wiener Werkstatte and Josef Frank 6- 20th Century: Functionalism and Industrial Art Movement • Effects of the European Industrialization on Textile Prints: Barron and Larcher and Enid Marx, Poulk Press, the Nicholsons, Curwen Press, Sanderson and Simpson & Godlee, Ramsden Wood Print Works, Allan Walton Textiles, Edinburgh Weavers, Warner, Helios, Marion Dorn. • Clothing, Fashion cuts, garments and Textile Designing in the 20th Century. • Post Modernism, late 20th century- designs of dresses and interior inspired from the stated art movements and the contemporary scene • Finland: Marimekko, Vuokko and Metsovaara, Finlayson-Forssa,. • Austria: Josef Frank, • British: Heal Fabrics, Hull traders, Mary Oliver textiles, David White Head, Laura Ashley, Designers Guild, Zandra Rhodes, Patrick Lloyd, Slick Brands, OK Textiles, and Liberty. 7- Contemporary Textile Designer (Local/International ) • Textile Brands • Designers • Boutiques • Fashion Outlets • Design inspiration and colours scheming • Design concept and themes • Contemporary textile market and trends Learning Outcomes • The course examines the history of Western textiles from antiquity to the early twentieth century, including significant developments in the style, technology and function of such materials. • Surviving evidence and representations of textiles in the arts and literature are used to examine their social and historical context and their central economic role in pre-industrial societies. • Textiles as works of art and as constituents of dress will be presented as expressions of novelty and fashion. • Their designs will be used to trace cultural continuities that span the societal strata, and the role technological advances play in their evolution will be examined. • Students will learn about Pattern-woven silks, tapestry, embroidery, lace, and printed/painted fabrics. The course includes: • Guest lectures • Workshops • Surveys of Museums and Art Galleries • Seminar • Presentations • Critical analysis and case studies • Written Exams Recommended Text Books/ Help Material • Art through the Ages, Edition 11 • History of Art by E.M Gombriach • The Aspects of Art by Marjorie Hussain • Jackson, Lesley. 20th Century Pattern Design : Textile & Wallpaper pioneers. London : Mitchell Beazley, 2011. • Cole, Drusilla. 1000 Patterns: Design Through the Centuries

Course Learning Outcomes

• The ability to perform higher order thinking skills and articulate visual and art historical concepts in verbal and written forms. • Considering architecture, sculpture, wall-painting, manuscript painting, stained glass, metalwork, pottery and textiles in their historical contexts. • This course explores the challenging world of medieval art to the 20th century, including abstraction, traditional and new media, art and politics, mass-produced design and culture. • Fashion and clothing can be called material zeitgeists of culture. This course addresses the influences, affinities, and relationships of fashion, the visual arts and culture. The psychological and sociological influences of dress, the physical aspects of appearance, and the influences of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class on the development of personal identity are explored through the study of style in traditional cultures, popular culture and everyday life • Readings, discussions and research enhance the student's skills in interpreting and articulating their understanding of art, fashion, clothing and culture. • Historical Design development: apparel, furnishing, costume, textile arts and non-apparel. • Cultural factors that influence designs and designers: textile production and textile art forms, textile as a medium for self-expression and communication across cultures and civilizations. • Source of inspiration for contemporary textile designers. • Factors that determine the success and failure of designers.