META24 WORKFORCE LAB · GRADED TO THE CORE · PROJECT-BASED · A COURSE IN FASHION DESIGN & APPAREL · MIDDLE SCHOOL · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 6–12 · 0.25 CREDIT · META24 LAB COMPETENCIES
Fashion Design
The Craft · the material is the design · in The Cut & Sew House · Fashion
6 weeks of The Cut & Sew House · Fashion: The Material Is the Design · Texture Is a Color Variable · The Honest One · A Dart Is Just Fullness · The Machines, The Seams …
The weeks are the course’s own, read from the lab; the catalog pads the last weeks with the capstone and the floor so the course fills a whole term.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
TECHNOLOGY & TRADESART & DESIGNREADING & WRITINGBUSINESS & ENTERPRISEMATHSCIENCECODING & AIHISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & HUMANITIES
The squares are a picture of a course — how much of each core subject its own rooms carry, read from the rooms’ text — never a score of a student. Every course in a lab is graded to the core across the board; the squares say which columns it feeds most.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
- Two shirts — same pattern, same stitching, same color
- Color for textiles isn’t color on a screen
- The most important week, handled with care: fit is a design problem, not a body problem
- The core craft
AT A GLANCE · 9 WEEKS
Q1 The Material Is the Design → The capstone, then the floor — The capstone · The Craft
ALSO IN FASHION DESIGN & APPAREL · THE CUT & SEW HOUSE · FASHION
A quarter
9 WEEKS · ONE QUARTERQuarter 1 · The Material Is the Design → The capstone, then the floor
WEEKS 1–9 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1The Material Is the DesignTHE CRAFT · THE MATERIAL IS THE DESIGN
Two shirts — same pattern, same stitching, same color. One feels like money, one like a dollar store. The difference isn’t the design; it’s the cloth. Before you cut anything, know what you’re cutting.
WK 2Texture Is a Color Variable
Color for textiles isn’t color on a screen. The same dye reads differently on matte cotton and sheen satin — because the fabric’s surface is part of the color.
WK 3The Honest One
The most important week, handled with care: fit is a design problem, not a body problem. Bodies aren’t wrong — patterns are.
WK 4A Dart Is Just Fullness
The core craft. A pattern is the flat map of a 3D body — and the “aha” that hooks everyone: a dart is just fullness, and you can move it anywhere without changing the fit.
WK 5The Machines, The Seams
Where the pattern becomes a garment. The machines, the needle matched to the fabric, the right seam in the right place — and the unglamorous secret that separates homemade from made.
WK 6Sellable vs. Homemade
The eye that judges quality — and the honest picture of the industry you’re about to make things in.
WK 7–9The capstone, then the floor
The capstone the track ends in, then the floor: the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The capstone · The Craft
The question. What does The Craft ask you to be able to do by week 6?
The make. Every week's assignment and the quiz as practice: The Material Is the Design · Texture Is a Color Variable · The Honest One · A Dart Is Just Fullness …
The evidence. Handed in through The Craft inside The Cut & Sew House · Fashion, kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
A course is a quarter, a semester or a year — nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks — a project a quarter. Offered as the year, a semester or a quarter, it is the same course seen through a window. A lab is a family: its year, each of its tracks as a course, and its rooms. The evidence is what a student hands in through the room; the Report reads it from there. Nothing in the catalog is a grade.
THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
One pass includes Fashion Design and every course in the catalog. Pick a pass, or enter a school code; checkout stays on this page.