Venues

Springburn Campus

Content

You’ll study both men’s and women’s tailoring, create period foundation garments such as corsets, and learn decorative embellishment techniques using hand and machine sewing. Working on a range of internal design briefs and simulated production projects, you’ll gain invaluable hands-on experience designing and producing costumes for performance contexts — building a professional portfolio that reflects your creativity and technical precision.

By graduation, you’ll have a strong mix of creative flair, technical accuracy and historical understanding — ready to enter costume departments across film, TV and theatre, or to progress to university-level study.

What you will learn:

Costume Design and History of Costume; Pattern Construction; Ladies Period Foundation Garments; Gents Costume Cutting and Construction; Costume Fitting Skills; Designing and Creating Costume Embellishment; Corsetry.

Entry Requirements

2 Highers including English, Art and Design or Fashion and Textile Technology, or NQ Fashion: Design for Manufacture (Level 6), or other relevant national qualifications at SCQF Level 6. Interview. Portfolio preferred.

Progression Routes

Relevant degree course