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Fashion, Textiles and Accessories

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Overview

If you’ve ever wanted to create your own clothes, master sewing techniques or simply get hands-on with material, this range of short courses is for you.

Fashion, textiles and accessories cover a wide range of skill sets, from learning basic, practical skills such as stitching and pattern making to advanced industry-focused techniques like leathercraft, digital textile design and even visual merchandising.

Once you’ve adopted the basic skills involved in this intricate craft, the world of fashion design has plenty of opportunities to explore. You could plan, stitch and sew together a dress for summer, create a capsule collection based on your favourite designers or even work on starting your own small business and selling miniature creations – the perfect chance to channel your inner Vivienne Westwood or become the next Maison Margiela.

Find out more about our fashion, textiles and accessories courses below.

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Basic Sewing Machine Skills

This 10-week course is the perfect introduction for machine sewing – learn the skills needed to stitch your projects to life.

Swatches of different coloured leathers

Leathercraft – an Introduction

In this hands-on 10-week course you'll be introduced to the creative process and professional techniques used to make leather products.

Close-up of several different-coloured and sized beads on a wooden plate.

The Art of Bead Embroidery

This hands-on 10-week course gives you the opportunity to explore a popular style of embellishment through bead embroidery.

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