Lesson video

Hello, my name is Mrs. Tipping, and I'm really looking forward to learning with you today all about watery weavings and looking at textiles.

We are going to do lots of thinking, talking, and exploring together in this lesson.

So, shall we get started? Let's go.

By the end of today's lesson, you will be able to embellish and evaluate your own textile art.

Before we start, I would like to introduce you to some keywords.

We'll be using these keywords during the lesson, so it might be a good idea to write these words down.

The keywords we'll be using today are embellish, evaluate, feedback.

I'm going to say those again, and I would like you to repeat them after me.

Embellish.

Evaluate.

Feedback.

Good job.

Now let's take a look at what each of these keywords mean.

Embellish means to add extra details.

or decorations to a textile.

To evaluate is when we think about our artwork to understand how good it is and how we could make it better.

Feedback is sharing your ideas about other people's artwork.

Pause the video here to make a note of these keywords, and when you're ready to continue, press play.

These are the learning cycles that we'll be working through together in today's lesson: embellishing your weaving and evaluating your design.

In this first part of the lesson, we're going to have a go at embellishing your weaving.

Let's take a look at this weaving.

So we've got the design here, and this is the weaving.

What still needs to be added to this weaving, do you think? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, I think they still need to add maybe some strips of fabric for the tentacles, maybe a stitch or buttons for the eye, and the thread to show the spiral of the tentacles.

Can you see those are the things we had on our design, and they're missing our weaving at the moment, so we need to add those.

These extra details can be added after the weaving part of the design is finished to make it easier to see.

Adding these details at the end of a weaving is called embellishment.

Examples of embellishment could be some stitch, some buttons and beads, and maybe even some extra fabric details.

So these are all things we could add to our weaving at the end to embellish it.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Embellishments should be added after making your weaving.

Is that statement true or false? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said the statement is true, you're absolutely right.

Embellishments should be added after making your weaving, but can you explain why? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and to explain why this statement is true, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Why should those embellishments be added after making your weaving? Well, embellishments add extra detail to your textile work, so they should be added after you've made your weaving to make that easier.

Let's take a look at this weaving here.

What embellishment has been added to this weaving? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner.

Can you spot it? And then press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Could you see that embellishment? Well, hopefully you could see the stitch.

Can you see where those white stitches are? Well done if you could see those.

Now, Andeep and Alex, they start adding stitch to their weaving.

They said, "We could use running stitch to show the spiral of the tentacles." So they're using an over and under movement to create the stitches.

So if I'm going to embellish with stitches to show spirals, it might look like this.

And you see we're gonna go under and then over and then pull that through.

I want you to have a go at that now.

Pause the video here and have a go embellishing with stitches to show the spirals, and then press play when you're ready to continue.

Did you have a go? Well, hopefully your weaving looks like this with the stitches added, and creating those spirals using the stitches, that helps the weaving look more like tentacles.

Next, Alex and Andeep consider adding stitch and buttons for the eye.

So Alex says, "We can use stitch and buttons together." Hmm.

So we've got the stitch and we've got the buttons.

They add the stitches and then they glue on their button.

So here's the stitch there, and then they've glued on this button for the eye.

Now, Alex says, "A bright button will stand out against the fabric in our weaving." Can you see how they've chosen that pearly colour that looks good against those pinks and purples? What embellishments have now been added to their weaving? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? What different embellishments could you see? Well, finally, Andeep and Alex have added fabric strips to make the tentacles, so they've been able to wind the thread around the fabric strips.

Could you see that there on the tentacles? So there's the fabric strips and they've used thread to hold the fabric strips together.

Can you see the white thread winding around? So now they've made those tentacles.

This brings us to our first learning task.

I'd like you to embellish your design.

So, think about using buttons for any round details, maybe some stitch for extra lines, and some thread and fabric strips to show the spirals and the curves.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at embellishing your design, and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Shall we take a look at an example? So maybe you've added stitch to show curves and spirals, used buttons or beads for eyes, and maybe wound some thread around fabric strips for tentacles to embellish your design.

Well done for having a go at embellishing your weaving.

This brings us to the second part of our lesson.

We're gonna have a go at evaluating our designs.

What textile techniques do you see in this design? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think, and then press play when you're ready to continue.

What different techniques could you see? Well, when artists finish their design or artwork, they might evaluate what they've done, so they're gonna take a look and they might say what they like or dislike about their artwork.

They can also explain what materials or techniques they used.

They can say what the artwork shows.

Maybe they can describe how they might do something differently next time.

Evaluating artwork is an important part of the creative process.

It means that artists can improve over time as they reflect upon what went well and what could have gone better.

Andeep and Alex are evaluating their textile design.

Alex describes the materials and techniques they have used in their artwork.

Alex says, "We have used weaving, stitch, and buttons to create our design." Andeep then describes what their artwork shows.

So what did it show? Can you remember? Well, Andeep says, "Our artwork shows a purple, pink, and brown octopus." They then think about what they might do differently next time they make a weaving.

Andeep says, "I think we could have used more orange within our design to make it a bit brighter." And Alex, he says, "I think the tentacles could be a bit wider, so they look more like our plan." Hmm, there's some good ideas of what they could do differently next time.

What would you suggest Andeep and Alex can improve? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner, and press play when you're ready to continue.

Hmm.

There could be lots of options, and many of us have different ideas on how Alex and Andeep could improve.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Which statement about evaluation is true? Evaluation helps artists to improve over time.

Evaluation is saying something unkind.

Evaluation is just about liking or disliking an artwork.

Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think about which statement about evaluation is true, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said that evaluation helps artists to improve over time, you're absolutely right.

It's more than just saying what we like or dislike about an artwork.

It's also important for artists to give feedback.

This means telling other artists what you like about their work, what their artwork reminds you of, how they might improve their artwork.

Giving feedback helps other artists to improve their work.

Andeep and Alex look at the artwork that Izzy and Sam have made.

So, this is the underwater weaving that Sam and Izzy created.

Andeep gives feedback as he describes what he likes about the design.

Andeep says, "I like the threads that have been added for embellishment.

They add an interesting texture." What do you think? Do you agree? Is that what you liked about this design? Or maybe something different? Alex gives feedback by describing what the artwork reminds him of.

Alex says, "The threads make it look like the weaving is underwater, like the tentacles are floating around in different directions." What did you think? What does this artwork remind you of? Alex and Andeep give feedback by saying how the artwork might be improved.

Andeep says, "Next time you could try adding more embellishments, such as beads around the body." Alex says, "You could improve your design by adding more fabric strips for tentacles." Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Is this statement true or false? Feedback in art is when we share what we like about someone's artwork and how they can make it better.

Is that statement true or false? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think about this, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said that's true, you're absolutely right.

Can you explain why that statement is true? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner to explain why this statement is true, and press play when you're ready to continue.

Well, if you said feedback can also describe what you notice in an artist's work and what it reminds you of, you're absolutely right.

Well done.

This brings us to our final learning task.

I'd like you to evaluate your own artwork.

You could write a sentence on a sticky note.

I used in my artwork and it helped me.

I think my artwork shows because.

Next time I will try to to make my artwork even better.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to evaluate your own artwork, and maybe use some of these sentence starters on a sticky note, and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you find that? Hopefully you were able to evaluate your own artwork.

Now I would like you to have a go at discussing a friend's artwork and give them feedback, and you could use these sentence stems to help you.

I think you could try next time.

Your artwork makes me feel.

Your artwork looks because.

I notice that you.

I really enjoy the way you.

So pause video here and give yourself enough time to discuss a friend's artwork and give them feedback, and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you find that? Could you give your friends some feedback? Well, maybe when you evaluated your design, you might have said, "I used a wide range of fabrics in my artwork and it helped me to show the different textures of the octopus." "I think my artwork shows the different colours that an octopus can be because I used purple, brown, pink, and orange." "Next time, I will try to use more buttons to embellish to make my artwork even better." So well done if you were able to evaluate your design first of all and write some feedback for yourself there.

And then for your friend's design, maybe you were able to give some feedback like this.

"Your artwork makes me feel like I'm underwater!" "I noticed that you used lots of different colours inspired by your underwater creature." "I think you could try using more embellishment next time." Well done if you were able to evaluate your design and give some feedback to a friend.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learnt about embellishment and evaluating.

Embellishment can be added to a weaving using buttons, beads, stitch, and fabric.

It's important to know that evaluating artwork is an important part of the design process, and it's also important to offer feedback to other artists to help them improve over time.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson.

I hope you enjoyed learning about watery weavings and textiles.

I certainly did.

I hope to see you for another unit of learning soon.

See you then.