Proskills: Making Skills Work

Typical Tasks

General Skills required

Experience requested

Qualifications

• Interpret written and diagrammatic instructions.
• Inspect and analyse fabric for errors, patterns and grain.
• Prepare equipment.
• Calculate how to make best use of fabric so that there is minimal waste.
• Mark out and cut fabric accurately.
• Communicate with sewers and upholsterers concerning the fabric.
• Observe environmental, health and 

     safety regulations.

• Supervise junior staff.

• Good manual dexterity.
• Basic mathematical ability.
• An eye for patterns.
• Ability to interpret written and diagrammatical instructions.
• Free from allergies to dust.

This will be dependent on the job role at which you enter the industry; however if you have little or no experience 3 or more GCSEs at grade A to C are valued by employers.

A general interest in the craft

There are no fixed entry level requirements.

Qualifications valued by employers may include:

• GCSE’s, ideally grade A to C
• A Level’s
• NVQ L2/L3 in Making and Installing Furniture.
• NVQ L3 in Making and repairing Hand-Crafted Furniture.
• City and Guilds L4 Creative Arts Higher Professional Development Diploma.
• Furniture Apprenticeship and Advanced Apprenticeship.