City & Guilds Level 1 Certificate in Design and Craft – Stumpwork
This is a beginners course comprising around 30 hours of tuition time. It is suitable for anyone wanting to commence this craft, with no previous embroidery knowledge. The course is comprised of 4 modules that will cover the whole of the course.
Design Portfolio
Simple work on colour theory
Work using different types of line
Work using two different textures
A set of samples covering all the techniques listed in the course requirements (below)
A folder of notes covering techniques, ideas and Health & Safety. Most of these will be tutor given but you are required to add some of your own as the course progresses.
Course Requirements
select and prepare fabrics and materials for use
use tools and equipment carefully and safely
simple background colouring
make slips and apply them neatly
select and apply methods of raising
construct component parts and apply neatly
use needlelace and embroidery stitches appropriate to stumpwork
construct free-standing effects using wire and pre-formed moulds
construct a head with a hat
construct a hand
Course Modules
Using different types of line needlelace and using pre-formed moulds
Colour theory
Contrasting textures - hands, heads and hats
Further slips and methods of raising
Timescale & Fees
There will be a C&G enrolment fee and a registration fee which is also payable at the start of the course. These last for 1 year before requiring renewal. It is usual to take around 4 weeks to complete a module, meaning that completion would be in 4 months time, although it is possible to speed this up or slow it down to suit yourself. At present time this course is available postal or as an online course where modules and assessments are online.
At the end of the course a final exhibition of work takes place and an external verifier visits. We hold the exhibition at Eccles Farm each summer for our attending and postal students, if you are unable to attend and display your own work a small fee to arrange for your work to be displayed for you will be required, but this will be discussed well ahead. Those studying online will have an online gallery built for them.
City & Guilds insist that an upper time limit is set on the course so that work remains current and this is 5 years for this course. The cost of the course depends on how many modules you wish to pay for at once.
