Browse below for a list of resources and project ideas for teachers of Textiles;
Curriculum
F-10
- Click HERE for the F-10 Victorian Design & technologies Curriculum
- Click HERE for the VCAA's Curriculum advice area for Design & Technologies. You'll find information here on curriculum planning, assessment & reporting
- Click HERE for F-10 D&T Curriculum Mapping documents
VCE
- Click HERE for the 2018-2022 VCE PD&T Study Design
- Click HERE for the 2017 information on the VCE PD&T School-Assessed Task
Click HERE for past exam & exam reports in VCE PD&T
Forums
Edulists - subscribe to Textech, the textiles teachers' email forum group
Design Competitions
- So You Think You Can Design - Textiles
- Wool 4 Skool
Textiles Design
All Free Sewing - a great site for tutorials, patterns and how-to videos
Click HERE for a great YouTube video on the use of CAD/CAM in textiles manufacturing
Sign up to Pinterest for thousands of free, online tutorials on textiles design
E-Textiles & Wearable Technologies
Project Jacquard - an amazing wearable technologies project, demonstrating the potential of weaving using conductive yarns
- www.sewelectric.org/diy-projects/- a fantastic wearable technologies site with simple project guides
Instructables has a fantastic range of ideas and how-to guides for e-textiles
Clever Clothes - a great resource from the Design Museum on how wearable technology is changing our world
Sparkfun has an online tutorial for insulation techniques for e-textiles
Textiles Technology in Society/Sustainability
- Click HERE for a Lifecycle Analysis of textiles from the Centre for Sustainable Design Strategies
- Google's We wear Culture - the Stories Behind What We Wear is a fantastic resource for textiles teachers
- The True Cost - a movie not to miss about the terrible human and environmental cost of the fashion industry
- Click HERE for a TED Talk by Jane Chen on a fantastic textiles design project designed to save lives in the developing world
- What Keeps You Warm in the Winter? is a unit outline looking at designing bedding for the homeless
Materials Technology
- Primezone provides teachers with access to a range of primary industries education resources - great for Food & Fibre projects!
Woolwise - the Australian Wool Education Trust has a range of education resources on wool
Australian Wool Innovation Limited has resources for young people interested in a career in wool
DuPont Textiles & Interiors introduces Tactel® illuminae, an innovative family of yarns, offering new opportunities to achieve highly desirable visual effects such as lustre, iridescence, two-colour stripes and jacquard patterns
- DuPont Tools lists all Dupont fibres and a section on end uses.
- Fabric Link gives details of innovative discoveries in fibres and fabrics
- Click HERE for a list and description of fabric care symbols
- Lenzig has information about cellulose-based fibre production
- Click HERE for the Podcast: Cotton and the environment - naturally coloured cotton (no transcript available)
- Click HERE for the Podcast: Recycling denim by Burlington (no transcript available)
- Cotton classroom - educational resources for students and teachers about growing and manufacturing cotton
- Click HERE for Cotton fibre production research
Health and Safety
Further Study
Swinburne Design - courses, careers and competitions