Professional Crafts: Fiber
About
The Professional Crafts: Fiber curriculum is designed to train individuals as professional handweavers. Instruction includes technical weaving knowledge, dye work, design skills, and marketing and business essentials. Students will learn warping techniques, weaving theory and technique, dye applications, and finishing methods. Students will receive design skills to aid them in personalizing their own work. Additional instruction will provide the bases for starting and running a small business. Graduates will be able to open and operate their own weaving studio, work for an existing weaving business, or transfer to a four-year degree program.
Potential Careers
The following occupational information is provided by www.nccareers.org and is subject to change. The occupations list is not an exhaustive list and may include careers that require higher levels of education than those provided at NCCCS colleges.
