Information for offer holders: BA (Hons) Costume for ...
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Information for offer holders: BA (Hons) Costume for Performance
This document contains important information from your course team about what to expect from your studies, including what kit you’ll need to participate in your course. We recommend visiting our Coronavirus information pages regularly for the latest advice and support to help you study safely. We are really looking forward to welcoming you to BA (Hons) Costume for Performance course and we wish you an incredibly stimulating and productive year. We want to tell you a little more about our plans for the 2021/22 academic year. We look forward to seeing you in both our classrooms and our online sessions this year. We would like to introduce our Course Leader, Jorge Sandoval and let you know we are ready to take you on an incredible journey of creation and experimentation, through industry driven processes and practical skills, as well as design-oriented projects that combine critical thinking with specialist knowledge in the field of costume making and design. It gives us great pleasure to be delivering our academic year 2021/2022 with a robust approach to teaching and learning which combines exciting face-to-face practical sessions in the spaces of UAL, as well as interesting online activities that complement and enrich your practical knowledge. Through exciting online sessions such as lectures, workshops and masterclasses, your on-site practical sessions are enriched with the advice, mentorship and consultancy of industry professionals that now are accessible to us more than ever. Alongside our lecturers and technical team, experienced industry practitioners will work with you through face-to-face practical workshops, physical and online lectures, masterclasses, and industry connected projects. After experiencing a long period of adjustment due to the Covid-19 pandemic, students and practitioners in the field of costume have confirmed how resilient, innovative and resourceful we are both as an industry and within our UAL community. We know from experience that things can change very rapidly, so we have plans in place just in case we have to adapt to further restrictions or other events, and we have designed our timetables to make this possible. Your timetable will be published in early September. We are looking forward to welcoming you when term begins.
Key contacts
More details about your curriculum can be found on our BA (Hons) Costume for Performance course page.
If you have any questions over the summer period, please contact our course leader or programme administrator. Course Leader: Jorge Sandoval ([email protected]) is your main point of contact for any questions you may have about your course curriculum. Programme Administrator: Sonja Lukic ([email protected]) will be able to help with other matters.
Your course kit list
We recommend waiting until you’re notified you’re eligible to enrol before purchasing your course kit.
Digital kit
The minimum kit list to engage with UAL learning is:
1. Laptop or desktop computer (Mac or PC) 2. Stable internet connection 3. Ear/headphones which work with your laptop or desktop – preferably with an inbuilt microphone.
4. A standalone webcam if your laptop or desktop does not already have one.
5. Basic office software. You can download up to five free copies of the Office365 suite.
Other kit
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Sewing machine High end option: Singer Heavy Duty 4411 A good investment if you want to keep your machine for a long time https://www.directsewingmachines.co.uk/singer/singer-heavy-duty-4411.html Price £249
Singer Heavy Duty 4411
Inexpensive Option: Brother LS14s 14 set stitch machine. Full size domestic for beginners. Strong and inexpensive https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4602576?clickSR=slp:term:sewing%20machines:3:18:1 Price £80
*Argos Brother LS14s
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Dress form Adjustable-large-dress-forms https://sewing-online.com/sew-simple-dressmakers-dummy-red.html £109.99
PPE face covering and disposable gloves
Small sturdy tool box or a Fabric tool roll
Scissors (5 types): Fabric shears, small embroidery scissors, paper scissors, snips, and pinking shears https://www.morplan.com/gb_en/catalogsearch/result/?q=fabric+scissors
Morplan ( student discount)
Friskers is a good brand
Quick unpick/ seam ripper
Thimble: (buy this to fit middle finger on sewing hand)
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Tailor’s chalk: Yellow and white. Chalk pencils.
Do not buy marking wax
Bees wax for thread
*Amazon
An ‘erasable ink’ fine nib pen ( Frixion Pilot pens) MUJI, WH Smiths
A packet of mixed hand sewing needles Specialist needles: curved and leather
Large box of top quality 30 mm steel dress makers’ pins
Don’t buy glass headed pins.
Small magnet To pick up dropped pins
Box of safety pins Medium size
Pin cushion
Pfaff bobbin and case College shop
Industrial sewing machine feet for: Zipper/piping foot left and right. Concealed zipper foot/Teflon foot for ‘pvc’ and leather.
College shop
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Burda colored tracing paper
Red/ blue Yellow/white
Tracing wheel
Morplan, college shop
Flexicurve (Flexible ruler) UNIQUE
C-Thru 8ths 6" Beveled Transparent Ruler (B-50) WESTCOTT
Bias maker 18 mm Amazon* Prym
Seam allowance guide
Vario pliers Prym brand
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Set of small flat head screw drivers for sewing machine
Professional fabric tape measure in cm and inch 60 inch long (1.5 meter) with a metal tip on one end ( analogical tape measure)
Reel of white cotton Coats 40
Reel of basting/tacking cotton
Koban #25 Dual Duty Thread: 1Black and 1 White
Koban brand or similar
Corset Kit (Approx. £50.00)
College Shop
PATTERN DRAFTING ESSENTIALS:
Pencils HB / 2H (non-smudge)
Colour pencils i.e. RED, BLUE, GREEN
Fine liner marker pens
Good quality eraser and self contained pencil sharpener
Large roll of masking tape and pritt stick
Bradawl College shop
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Graders Set square metric Morplan https://www.morplan.com/gb_en/43419
Morplan ( student discount) college shop
Set of French curves ( clothing)
Amazon*
Patternmaster Morplan https://www.morplan.com/gb_en/patternmasters-pro
Amazon*
Adafruit FLORA Soft-wearable Micro-controller Version 3 (£14.10)
https://bit.ly/3A9UXDv
Controller Board for Soft-wearable projects
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Top of Form USB A to microB cable – 25cm (£3.00)
https://bit.ly/3dpE65S
Information cable for transferring data to/from your PC and FLORA Controller Board.
Wide Eyed Needle Set for Conductive Thread (£1.80) Some standard needle packs will already have needles with a larger eye width. If you already have these there is no need to purchase.
https://bit.ly/3A6JTHc
Wide eyed Needles for Sewing with Conductive Thread
8 inch/ 20 cm Wooden Embroidery Hoop (£6)
Amazon* For use in Soft-wearables projects and embroidery
Adafruit Neo-Pixels Version 2 x 4 (£7.50)
https://bit.ly/3h4AzMu
For use in Soft-wearables projects
REFERENCE BOOKS:
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‘Readers digest new complete book of sewing’ ISBN 9780762104208
Amazon*
‘Metric pattern cutting for women’s wear’. Winfred Aldrich 6th edition ISBN 978145175678
Amazon* Can be second hand copy earlier version
‘Pattern cutting for lingerie, beachwear and leisurewear’. Ann Haggar ISBN 978-1-4051-1858-3
Amazon*
‘Waisted efforts’ Waisted efforts: an illustrated guide to corset making Robert Doyle 1997, Sartorial Press Publications in English
Amazon*
Vogue/Butterick step by step guide to sewing techniques Out of print but available second hand for around £20
Amazon*
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The Dressmaker's Technique Bible by Lorna Knight Used £10.00
Amazon*
Make: Getting Started with FLORA: Making Wearables with an Arduino-Compatible Electronics Platform (£10)
Amazon* Guide to Flora Electronics Soft-wearable platform, installation and accessories
Discounts and benefits
As a UAL student you have access to a range of educational discounts to assist with your studies. Read our IT software and discounts page to find out more. Adobe Creative Cloud UAL student deal You can access Adobe Creative Cloud programmes for free whilst on site, however you may want flexibility and guaranteed access at other times. The UAL student deal gives you a subscription to the full Adobe Creative Cloud suite, plus 100GB of cloud storage until Saturday 13 August 2022 for a single £48 payment.
You should check your course requirements and information on alternative software before purchasing. If you need access to more than two Adobe Creative Cloud applications or want to access them remotely, it’s worth considering this offer. The deal will be available on the UAL eStore from 14 August 2021 for all UAL students. Read our Get Adobe Creative Cloud for £48 story for details. University Equipment Hardship Fund If you think you may need financial support to purchase equipment to access online learning, the University Equipment Hardship Fund may be able to help.