Bursaries & Awards
The Textile Society Student Bursary
This Award 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
It is very important to state on the application form whether you are an undergraduate or postgraduate, as there will be two bursaries for undergraduates and two for postgraduates. There will also be a separate award for critical writing.
Undergraduate bursaries – £750 and £500
Postgraduate bursaries – £1000 and £500
There will be two parts to the awards:
– the initial application
– if you are a studio based student and you are shortlisted after the first round, you will be contacted and there will be a visit by the judges to your end of year exhibition for the awards.
Critical Writing award – £1000 and £500
There will only be one part to the critical writing award. It will be given to a student for an outstanding piece of critical writing relating to dress or textiles. The written piece should be approx 3000 words, not including footnotes or bibliography. It should be research based and with a theoretical approach. Visuals may be included.
The criteria for all students covers three 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 these three areas, although the project submitted for the award does. For example a textile design student could apply for the promotion and technology section if their project relates to marketing. A project may, furthermore, relate to one or more sections. For example textile conservation could relate to either history and critical writing ot technology. Students need to select the section which they feel is most appropriate for their application and they may apply for one section only.
ART AND DESIGN – study of Fine Art or Design with a textile/fashion
bias.
CRITICAL WRITING – study of any subject relating to history of dress or textiles.
PROMOTOION/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 the Art/Design and Promotion/Technology awards should clearly give, in no m ore than 1000 words, an illustrated outline of their project and explain how the Textile Society funding would be used.
- Do remember to put your name on your work.
- Do NOT include 3D objects, samples, slides or large A3 sheets of designs. This is because each application has to go to a 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.
- Please send your application form along with a CD of your project in PDF format to the address below.
If you reach the final shortlist of the award you will notified. 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 decision of the Textile Society committee is final.
Alternatively, please send a S.A.E to:
Lyn Broster, Charlesbye Farm, Greetby Hill, Ormskirk, Lancs, L39 2DT
or email: bursaries@textilesociety.org.uk
(Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope with any application
or correspondence.)
Good luck.