The accredited Diploma in Professional Curtain Making & Soft Furnishings is the ideal course if you want to design your own projects, help your friends and family with theirs or if you would like to set up your own soft furnishings workroom. If you already have a curtain making business but don’t have a qualification or the advanced skills required to design and make beautiful hand finished curtains, then you can enhance your business by studying this Diploma course, flexibly around your existing business. The Diploma is accredited by AIM Awards.

This comprehensive Diploma course covers everything you need to know from how to design and measure beautiful window treatments, all the professional construction techniques, right through to business advice for starting your own business and workroom. This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and confidence you will require to undertake your own projects, start or enhance a business or alternatively, it will offer you a guaranteed progression route to further study, and a career as an interior designer.

• UNIT 1. FABRIC, DESIGN SELECTION AND COLOUR THEORY - In this Unit you will investigate the use of texture, pattern, form and function in the selection of fabrics for soft furnishings.
• UNIT 2. ESTIMATION FOR SOFT FURNISHINGS - Designing a window treatment is a combination of creativity, practicality and accuracy.
• UNIT 3. MITRES, HAND-STITCHING TECHNIQUES AND PATTERN MATCHING - Mitres are used on corners as a way of distributing fabric evenly and hiding raw edges.
• UNIT 4. LINED AND INTERLINED CURTAIN CONSTRUCTION - By the end of this unit, you will be able to recognise the fire retardant characteristics of a range of fabrics and know how to select suitable fabrics.
• UNIT 5. CONSTRUCTING HAND-SEWN BUCKRAM HEADERS - By the end of this unit, you will be able to construct a curtain valance sample to a finished width/drop specification using buckram.
• UNIT 6. CONSTRUCTING PIPED CRESCENT TIE BACKS AND FLANGE CUSHIONS - Bringing a finished scheme together is not only about finding the right furniture to suit the space. The finishing details are just as important.
• UNIT 7. CONSTRUCTING A ROMAN BLIND - Blinds are very versatile and can be made from a minimal amount of fabric. They can be contained within the limits of the window frame or placed outside the recess to ‘dress’ the window.
• UNIT 8. CONSTRUCTING A PADDED PELMET - Pelmets and valances give a decorative and formal finish to the tops of curtains and, at the same time, hide the curtain heading and track from view.
• UNIT 9. CONSTRUCTING PIPED CUSHIONS, SWAGS AND TAILS - Swags and tails are the ultimate way to dress a window, creating a grand treatment that is suitable for formal rooms.
• UNIT 10. SETTING UP A SOFT FURNISHINGS BUSINESS - Within this unit, an understanding of the importance of structuring a business will begin to be developed.

Course Type:

Certified Training Course

Study Mode:

Online

Location:

Worldwide

Fees:

$1,950

Certification:

UK AIM Awards Level 3 Diploma

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