ba (hons) hand embroidery
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BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery
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Welcome to the Royal School of Needlework (RSN).
This is the start of your creative journey studying hand embroidery.
Prior to the start of the academic year, we urge you to keep up to date with current trends and inspirations within the world of embroidery and textiles.
Explore journals (print and online) and follow us on social media.
We encourage you to sign up to RSN e-News to hear about RSN Degree activitiesand developments as well as the RSN organisation as a whole. Please ensure that
it does not appear in your junk folder: https://royal-needlework.org.uk/newsletter/
Our social media accounts will inform you of RSN activities on a more daily basis:
Instagram: @rsndegree @royalneedlework @rsnembroiderystudio
Facebook: @royalneedlework facebook.com/royalneedlework
Twitter: @RoyalNeedlework twitter.com/RoyalNeedlework
YouTube: @RoyalNeedlework youtube.com/user/RoyalNeedlework
Angie Wyman Course Leader BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery
Degree Administrator
020 3166 6929
Course Welcome
Your Team
Angie WymanCourse Leader, Hand Embroidery
Visits to exhibitions, museums and galleries, and retail spaces are very important throughout your studies.
Try to visit museums and galleries – there are great ways to engage with museums and galleries online via their websites, if you are unable to visit them in person.
These visits will form an important contextualisation for your practice.
It also makes for a great ‘conversation’ starter in Welcome Week with your peers.
Please purchase these books in advance:
– The Royal School of Needlework Book of Embroidery: A Guide to Essential Stitches, Techniques and Projects RSN series: Search Press (25 May 2018) ISBN-13: 978-1782216063)
This will be your essential ‘go to guide’ during the course.
We also recommend that you build up your awareness of practice within the creative arts sector through online and print journals.
Relevant websites
– Royal School of Needlework https://royal-needlework.org.uk
– Embroidery magazine https://embroiderymagazine.co.uk
– Textileartisthttps://www.textileartist.org
– London Design Biennale https://www.londondesignbiennale.com
– V&Ahttps://www.vam.ac.uk
Trips and Visits
Reading List
We also hold a wide range of threads, fabrics, equipment and much more that you can loan and buy from the technicians in our resource room.
You will need to budget for some further specialist art/embroidery materials as part of the course, in order to experiment and develop your personal visual language.
There are local art and fabric supply shops nearby in East Molesey and Kingston-upon-Thames.
Equipment List
All students are required to pay a Studio Fee of £250 on the first day of term.
You will not have to purchase any items in advance, as your RSN studio fee will include basic materials to start the course. You will need to purchase other specialist materials as you move through the course.
Your Studio fee includes:
– Basic Art Kit
Fineliner pens, Pencils, Watercolours, Gouache, Paintbrushes, Tracing Paper, Sketchbooks
– Basic Hand Embroidery Kit
Wooden embroidery Hoops, good quality embroidery scissors, assortment of embroidery needles, glass headed pins, tape measure, calico fabric
– Technical Hand Embroidery Materials
Wooden embroidery frames, webbing tape, specialist fabrics and good quality threads for Crewelwork, Canvaswork, Blackwork and Goldwork
Need to knows
Getting hereOur address is:
The Royal School of Needlework Apartment 12aHampton Court PalaceKT8 9AUTel: +44 (0)20 3166 6932
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Course Enrolment & Induction Teaching begins
BA, BSc and MArch 20 - 24 September 27 September
Postgraduate 20 - 24 September 27 September
International Foundation (Autumn start) 20 September – 1 October 4 October
Christmas Break 2021 Easter Break 2022 2021-2022 year ends
20 Dec 2021 - 7 Jan 2022 4 Apr 2022 - 22 Apr 2022
10 Jun 2022 (BA, BSc & MArch)
13 May 2022 (International Foundation)
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BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery
BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery - Welcome Week_2021-22 PINCUSHION Please follow us on Social Media - @rsndegree / @royal-needlework
SUMMER PROJECT 2021
‘A POSTCARD FROM YOUR HOME…PINCUSHION’
As an introduction to developing your practice in hand embroidery we would like you to begin by producing a ‘postcard from your home’ as a PINCUSHION. All works will be exhibited at the RSN Degree apartments and on RSN social media during your autumn term Begin by drawing on location from your home.
Your postcard from home must SHOW the name of your home village / town / city / suburb and depict an image or series of images which you feel represents your home location. This could be a street/ village / town / cityscape. Take photographs to record potential sources of inspiration and use these to produce a series of paper design ideas using a range of experimental approaches
Use these to translate your design through experimental stitch and fabric applique – you can use any combination of materials and any media to create your pincushion. The pincushion can be in any shape or format.
Please ‘personally deliver’ your pincushion with your supporting drawings and design development on your first day at the RSN. We will ask each of you to present your
pincushion to us on the first day of term.