Textiles: Bookmarks

Pupils develop and practise threading and weaving techniques using various materials and objects. They look at the history of the bookmark from Victorian times versus modern-day styles. The pupils apply their knowledge and skills to design and sew their own bookmarks.

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Lesson 1: Exploring threading and weaving

Children develop their threading and weaving skills by exploring different materials and objects, such as ribbons through wire racks or wool through ten-frames.

Learning Objective

To develop threading and weaving skills.

Lesson 2: Paper weaving

Building on lesson one, the children continue to explore weaving techniques, using a weaving base and paper strips.

Learning Objective

To practise and apply weaving skills to a specific material e.g. paper.

Lesson 3: Sewing with hessian

The children apply what they learnt in lesson one to develop their threading skills using wool through hessian fabric, and then with a sewing needle and thread.

Learning Objective

To practise and apply threading skills with specific materials e.g. hessian and wool.

Lesson 4: Designing bookmarks

Children learn about the history of the bookmark back in Victorian times and compare them to modern-day styles before developing design ideas for their own.

Learning Objective

To use threading or sewing to design a product (bookmark).

Lesson 5: Creating bookmarks

After developing their own design in lesson four, children begin to plan and sew their bookmark design using hessian fabric and thread.

Learning Objective

To create a textiles product (bookmark) following their own design.

Lesson 6: Evaluating bookmarks

Continuing from lesson five, children complete their bookmarks and then in pairs, reflect and evaluate each other’s bookmarks - paper versus fabric designs.

Learning Objective

To reflect with children on how they have achieved their aims.