Welcome to Britain’s Premier Textile Society
Established in 1893, the Bradford Textile Society is the oldest textile society in Britain, if not in the world. Despite all the changes which have taken place in the textile industry since its formation, the Society continues to thrive. Its monthly programme of meetings from October to April provides an opportunity for everyone with an interest in textiles to meet and discuss a range of textile-related topics with an invited speaker.
BRADFORD TEXTILE SOCIETY
DESIGN COMPETITION 2021 – 2022
INSTRUCTIONS TO TUTORS AND STUDENTS FOR ONLINE ENTRIES
The Bradford Textile Society website will be live to register entry/entries for this year’s Design Competition from the 1st April 2022 until midnight on 13th May 2022.
Please use the following link to be taken to the relevant page on the Bradford Textile Society website –
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Complete the section for personal details.
- Select the section of entry in the drop-down menu.
- Upload 2 images of the entry (maximum 6 mb per image), one of which must be a clear image of the Main Sample.
- Please do not include your name or educational establishment on your images – this may lead to disqualification and entry fees will not be refunded.
- Complete the personal declarations and select the Wool Special Award if appropriate.
- A maximum of 3 entries may be submitted per email address and must all be made at the same time ie when the email is registered.
(Please use the ‘Want to add a 2nd entry’ box and then a 3rd entry).
- Further entries may be made using another email.
- There is no limit to the number of entries anyone can submit or the number of entries per section, providing each entry is a different body of work.
- The same work cannot be entered for more than 1 section.
- When uploading images please wait for the green line to disappear before pressing ‘submit’.
- On submission you will receive a confirmation email and a payment email. Please get in touch if you do not receive these emails. This is the payment email you will receive:
Each entry costs £15 for students studying at a UK university, School of Art, College etc or £25 for entrants who are designers working in the UK, either independently or for a company.
Entry fees can be paid by the Entrant directly or by Group Payment from the University, School of Art, College etc. Individual payment is preferred by BTS as any upload issues will be detected sooner and can be rectified before the entry deadline.
- Please note. Entries for which no payment has been received by the 31st July, 2022, by either method, may forfeit any prize awarded.
- Entries must be paid for online within 24 hours of registering the entry/entries unless there is an arrangement in place with the University, College, School of Art etc for a group payment, which has been notified in advance.
- Entries which are not paid for will be disqualified.
INDIVIDUAL PAYMENT
Please tick the box on the registration for ‘online payment’.
Please use your payment reference number when submitting payment for your entry/entries to enable us to match payments to entries.
Please submit your payment within 24 hours of registering your entry. The entry procedure is not complete until payment has been received. Entries not paid for will not go forward for judging.
Payments are to be made to –
THE BRADFORD TEXTILE SOCIETY TRUST
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 00365301
SORT CODE: 30 – 91 – 12
If there are any problems with online payment, please contact us to make alternative arrangements eg cheque payment.
secretary@bradfordtextilesociety.org.uk
GROUP PAYMENT
Please tick the box for ‘group payment’ at registration.
If a University, School of Art, College etc is submitting a group payment on behalf of its students would you please notify us as soon as possible to enable the system to accommodate this. The group entry payment must be received before 31st July 2022.
NOTES:
- Whilst we are not asking for technical details to be submitted this year, we reserve the right to ask for technical details if they are needed to help in the adjudication process.
- Prize-winners will be notified by email but please refer to our website also as emails sometimes go to spam.
- All entries will be treated with the upmost confidence during the judging process.
- Bradford Textile Society reserve the right to use images of award-winning entries in publicity material. Images used in the online Awards Ceremony will be watermarked to protect copyright. All other images submitted will be deleted after judging.
Please contact us if you have any queries or comments. We want the competition to continue for the benefit of students and hope the process is simple and straightforward for them and for you as Tutors.
secretary@bradfordtextilesociety.org.uk
FINALLY
We would like to draw your attention to 1 new and 1 reintroduced section this year.
R1 – sponsored by British Wool and Alternative Flooring Ltd for carpet and rug design is making a welcome return.
K3 is a brand-new section for knitwear garment design, sponsored by British Wool and Glencroft Ltd.
This may be of interest to some of your fashion, as well as textile students so would you be kind enough to pass this information on ?
Thank you for all your help and the best of luck to all entrants.
Design Competition
The Society’s annual Design Competition, with total prize money of over £17,000, is unique in its breadth of coverage and attracts almost 1,000 entries from students throughout the UK.
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Membership
Membership is open to individual or corporate members. If you would like to apply for membership please download our membership application form here.
For other inquiries please Email or use the form on our contact page.