From Glasgow Green to Bendigo (clip 2)
A look at the work of Glasgow's famous Templeton factory
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Description
This film shows manufacturing processes in the Templeton factory, Glasgow. This clip shows a designer from the Templeton Factory talking to camera and explaining the creative process while working at his bench creating a rough pattern for the new design.
Questions & Activities
Questions
- Is this how you would expect a designer to be dressed?
- Could you tell from his studio what he is designing?
- What do the designs and colours tell us about the ambitions of the early Nineteen Sixties?
- How is this underscored through the use of music?
- Is this an example of good design practice?
Activities
Art and Design / Textiles: Which is more important to the designer the form or function of a product and how does this effect its price and profitability?
Art and Design / Textiles: Go back to a historical painting and develop a pattern that you would want to produce as a textile.
Art and Design / Textiles: Discuss how the floral language of the narration to describe the pattern and discuss how historical allusion is used in contemporary fashion and textile design.
Art and Design / Textiles: Discuss the stages of this designer's process. Do you think you could do better using the same basic colours and shapes?
Art and Design / Moving Image Education: Discuss how a design process can be effectively communicated to other people. Describe your own design process from start to finish and if possible make a film for others to view.
Clip Details
| Record Id | 007-000-000-267-C |
|---|---|
| Resource Rights Holder | National Library of Scotland |
| Project Ref | 2209 |
| Date | 1961 |
| Genre | Promotional Film, Corporate |
| School Subject | Art and Design, Technologies |
| Subject Matter | Shape and Pattern, Visual Elements, Textiles |
| Who | (sponsor), Films of Scotland (production company), Robert Irvine (director), Templeton Carpets Ltd (sponsor) |
| Where | Glasgow |
| Event | Working life |
| Attributes | Colour, Sound |
| Clip Length | 2:52 |
| Film Length | 18:38 |