Designing a Cushion Cover - Grade 8 Lesson
Grade 8 · ART · Decorative Design
A Grade 8 term-two lesson presentation on designing and decorating a cushion cover. Works through choosing a decorative motif, developing it into a repeat, placing it within a square format, and finishing the edges - with a worked example built from a central floral medallion and corner motifs.
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"Designing a Cushion Cover - Grade 8 Lesson" is a lesson presentation for Grade 8 Art, filed under Decorative Design, prepared by Nilmini Jayasekara.
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Slides work best as revision after the lesson rather than instead of it: read the matching pages in the reading book first, then use these to check what you remember. For Grade 8 this is usually a single topic per file.
A cushion cover is a textile design brief in miniature: a motif (often drawn from the pattern work earlier in the syllabus) arranged with attention to symmetry, a border treatment, and a colour scheme that works at a small, close-up scale rather than across a whole room.
Treat this as practice for the kind of applied-design question the O/L paper sets later - a brief, a small number of design decisions, and a finished piece that has to actually work as an object, not just look good as a flat drawing.
