Blanket by Malin Svard, awarded the Textile Society Student Bursary 2006

The Textile Society Student Bursary

This bursary aims to support all educational textile and fashion courses. The various Student Bursaries are mainly intended for apprenticeships and BA or MA final year projects or dissertations.

Criteria/Guidelines

Criteria cover four areas; these are deliberately broadly described to allow for all aspects of textile education.

The student’s study area does not necessarily need to fit one of the four areas, although the project submitted for the award does: for example a textile design student could apply for the business/technology section if their project relates to marketing. A project may, furthermore, relate to one or more sections; for example textile conservation, which could relate to either history or science; textile design which could relate to art and design, or business and technology.

Students need to select the section which they feel is most appropriate for their application, however, they may apply for one section only.

A bursary up to the maximum of £500 is available for each section as outlined below.

ART AND DESIGN – study of Fine Art or Design with a textile/fashion bias.
HISTORY – study of any subject relating to history of dress or textiles.
SCIENCE – study of any aspect of science that is related to dress or textiles.
BUSINESS/TECHNOLOGY – e.g. journalism, marketing, pattern cutting, teaching

  • Students must fill in ALL sections of the application form particularly the criteria section; if this is not complied with it will mean disqualification.
  • The judges are looking for a project that is viable and has vision.
  • Applications for awards should clearly state, on no more than 2 sides of A4, how Textile Society funding would be spent. Please clearly write your name and project title on all sheets.
  • Do NOT include 3D objects, samples, slides, CD’s or large A3 sheets of designs. This is because each application is photocopied 3 times at A4 size for the judging panel and we are unable to return precious artwork or samples.
  • Applicants DO NOT need to be institutional or individual members of the Textile Society to apply, however such matters are taken into consideration during judging.
  • A working liaison is encouraged with the Textile Society and as such the Textile Society should be appropriately acknowledged and provided with an article or brief report which may be published in TEXT (The Textile Society Journal) and /or the student may be asked to give a presentation at an appropriate event. This will be specified to the student if they are successful. The editors of TEXT are happy to work with students to achieve a published result which they and we are pleased with.
  • The Textile Society’s committee decision is final.
  • Closing date for applications: 14th April 2008

Alternatively, please send a S.A.E to:
Brenda King, 7 Bollington Road, Bollington Cross, Cheshire, SK10 5EG
or email: bursaries@textilesociety.org.uk
(Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope with any application or correspondence.)

 

Good luck.