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Advanced Hand Embroidery Course

Enhance your Hand Embroidery skills and techniques with this advanced hand embroidery course. This course has been specifically designed for more experienced crafters whoĀ have completed theĀ Skill Stage 3Ā (or Level 3) Hand Embroidery course or have demonstrable experience of creating a variety of different projects and pieces. If youā€™re ready toĀ expand on the techniques you have previously learnt to discover your own unique artistic voice and expression then this is the course for you.

Throughout your course youā€™ll be supported by ourĀ expert tutorsĀ who will aim to assist your personal development.Ā  You will focus on conducting your own personal research, develop your skills, explore new ideas and ultimatelyĀ form a collection of work at a professional level.

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Course Features

12 Modules

Work your way through 12 modules each designed to teach new skills and provide a better understanding of your subject.

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Advanced Skill level

For hand embroiderers with a lot of technical knowledge and study experience, or students who have completed our Skill Stage 3 course.

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Duration

Students are allowed up to 2 years to complete this course. Each module takes roughly 6-8 weeks to complete

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Course Details

As a City & Guilds advanced hand embroidery course, it is nationally recognised for its high standards of teaching, learning and assessment.

Work your way through 12 individual modules each designed to teach a new skill and provide a better understanding of your subject. And because our courses are taught via distance learning through online materials and videos, youā€™ll find it easy to fit your studies around other on-going commitments.

Course Modules

There are around 410 hours of course content and materials split across 12 modules. Here’s what you’ll learn:

  • Self Chosen Design Project (SCDP) - choose your own design project to work on throughout the course
  • Research raised and padded techniques and provide samples
  • Study Transparent and Bonded techniques and provide samples
  • Study gold and metallic embroidery
  • Study the history of British Embroidery
  • Introduction to new methods: Felt, paper, Silk paper, and soluble embroidery sampling
  • Exploration of other techniques: Pulled & drawn thread and dye and paint
  • Research embroidery from different geographical locations
  • Study of colour: Removal, spray and heat samples
  • Design and make three final assessment pieces
  • Professional Practice: Produce a CV and profile, learn how to cost items, build and business plan and learn vital marketing strategies

Delivery & Assessment

The course is supplied as a distance learning course where course materials and tutor assessments are delivered digitally and work is returned to your tutor via digital presentation.

Your coursework will be reviewed by your tutor and periodically by an Internal Quality Assessor, to ensure the appropriate quality standard is maintained. You will be provided with written feedback in a timely fashion (usually within 10 days) and, if needed, you will be able to re-submit altered work. You can contact your tutor at any time to request your work to date be reviewed and suggestions for future progress be made.

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Course Timescales

There is around 410 hours of online hand embroidery course content/materials and it is usual for students to take between 6-8 weeks to complete each module. Students can take up to 2 years to complete, however it is up to the individual student how quickly they wish to return work to their tutor for assessment.

A six-month contingency is available, to cover unforeseen issues such as illness, upon production of supporting documentation,Ā  extending the course life to 30 months (2.5 years). The maximum for this extra contingency time is once during the course lifetime.

Aimed At

This City & Guilds accredited Hand Embroidery course is an advanced study programme aimed at embroiderers who want to enhance their skills and commercialise their work.

Ideally students will have a lot of demonstrable embroidery experience or must have previously completed our Skill Stage 3 course.Ā 

At this level students will be able to continue developing personal research and technical skills to form a unique collection of work at a professional level. Courses at this level provide students with an opportunity to develop their own individual style, experiment with ideas and develop their technical skills to form a collection of work at a professional level. If you havenā€™t previously completed a Level 3 or Skill Stage 3 course then please do check with us first before enrolling onto this course.

Courses at this level again include a Professional Practise module making them great for craft business owners. Whether you teach classes, run a craft store or sell your own products youā€™ll be taught valuable business and marketing skills including working to client briefs, establishing costing models and how to promote your business and services.

Our skill Stage 4 courses are also great for those with a business ambition. Our course includes an entire module calledĀ professional practise,Ā which is aimed at getting you business ready. We teach valuable industry skills to really give you that professional, competitive edge.

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Graduate Statement from Lois Stapleton, Hand Embroidery Skill Stage 4

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Lois Stapleton

“The course provided such a breadth of learning, from technical skills through to the history of embroidery and everything in between! The most helpful thing for me was discovering more about my style, my identity as an artist, and how to create my own designs.”
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Anna Hayway Hand Embroidery Graduate

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Anna Hayward

“If you would like a course that encourages your creativity with a wonderful balance of embroidery, research and design, then this is definitely the one. It is a course that will keep you focused and help you realise what you are capable of. It will have you hooked and amazed at how much you learn. Ultimately, itā€™ll give you a marvellous sense of achievement.”
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Advanced hand embroidery course graduate, Irene Harris

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Irene Harris

“The course reinforced to me that you are never too old to learn and because of that and my love of embroidery, I have now enrolled in the Hand Embroidery ā€˜Master Practitioner Course’.”
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Sally-Ann Duffy Hand Embroidery Graduate

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Sally-Ann Duffy

“The course has given me a confidence in my creative ability, and I have taught a series of workshops in a local secondary school showing the students the benefits of sewing, at a national environmental centre where I also exhibited and created a piece of textile art from recycled materials for them. I was also asked to showcase my work at a local womenā€™s group and plan more workshops in the future.”
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