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City & Guilds Limited · RQF Level 3

City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma In Furnishings - Modern Upholstery

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  • LevelRQF Level 3
  • Total credits78
  • Guided learning563 hours
  • Units in this qualification8

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

City & Guilds offers a wide range of qualifications in Manufacturing Industry, including Introductory, Higher Level and apprenticeship options. Learn more.

These are the units City & Guilds Limited registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Design schemes in furnishingsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
It teaches you to research and analyse current design trends in furnishings. You'll interpret design briefs, select suitable materials and components, and create design schemes with visual representations considering aesthetic and functional factors.

What you'll be able to do

  • Research and analyse design trends in furnishings.
  • Select appropriate materials and components for design schemes in furnishings.
  • Present design schemes effectively.
  • Develop and create detailed design schemes for furnishings, considering factors such as aesthetics, functionality, and cost.
  • Produce visual representations of design schemes.
Health and Safety within furniture and furnishing making environmentsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit covers health and safety requirements within furniture and furnishing making environments. You'll identify relevant legislation, understand employer and employee responsibilities, and learn to recognise hazards and assess risks in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the health and safety requirements applicable to the workplace
  • Identify potential hazards within the workplace
  • Assess risks associated with identified hazards in the workplace
Modern furniture upholsteryReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit equips learners with knowledge and skills to prepare and produce modern furniture upholstery. It covers frame inspection, webbing, spring preparation, fitting materials, and applying finishing techniques to produce upholstered items.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the correct methods for preparing items for modern furniture upholstery, including frame inspection, webbing, and spring preparation
  • Understand how to fit materials and apply finishing techniques to items of modern upholstery, ensuring quality and durability
  • Produce upholstered items of modern furniture to a professional standard, demonstrating competence in preparation, material fitting, and finishing
Produce drawings using CADReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll learn to set up and configure CAD software and hardware for engineering drawings. The unit covers producing accurate 2D and 3D CAD drawings, generating models, and producing hard copies to industry standards.

What you'll be able to do

  • Set-up CAD software and hardware to produce engineering drawings efficiently.
  • Configure CAD settings to meet specific drawing standards and project requirements.
  • Produce 2D CAD drawings accurately, including dimensions, tolerances, and annotations.
  • Create 2D CAD drawings of various engineering components and assemblies.
  • Produce 3D CAD drawings, including solid models and surface representations.
  • Generate 3D CAD drawings of complex shapes and intricate designs.
  • Produce hard copies of CAD drawings using appropriate printing techniques.
  • Manage and organise CAD drawing files for easy access and retrieval.
Production planning in furniture and furnishing makingReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit provides learners with knowledge of production planning and team management in furniture making. You'll understand resource allocation, scheduling, leadership styles, and how to plan and supervise production effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to plan for production in a furniture and furnishing making environment, including resource allocation and scheduling
  • Understand how to manage teams and individuals in a production environment, including communication, motivation, and performance management
  • Demonstrate the ability to plan for production in a furniture and furnishing making environment, taking into account all relevant factors
  • Demonstrate the ability to supervise teams and individuals in a production environment, ensuring that work is completed to the required standards and deadlines
Prototype design in modern upholsteryReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll gain skills to create design prototypes for modern upholstery. The unit covers interpreting design briefs, generating ideas, selecting materials, producing prototypes, and evaluating and refining designs based on feedback.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to interpret and respond to design briefs and ideas for modern upholstery.
  • Select appropriate materials and techniques for creating design prototypes in modern upholstery.
  • Evaluate and refine design prototypes based on feedback and testing.
  • Create design prototypes for modern upholstery, demonstrating creativity and technical skill.
  • Document the design and development process of upholstery prototypes.
Research and product design for modern upholsteryReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit covers responding to design briefs and evaluating design ideas for modern upholstery. You'll understand client needs, research sources of inspiration, and produce a range of design ideas considering materials and construction methods.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the processes involved in responding to design briefs for modern upholstery projects
  • Understand how to evaluate design ideas against the requirements outlined in design briefs
  • Produce a range of design ideas suitable for modern upholstery, considering factors such as materials, construction techniques, and aesthetics
Supervision in a furniture and furnishing making environmentReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll develop knowledge of mentoring and supervising staff in furniture and furnishing making environments. The unit covers the role of a mentor, essential skills and qualities, methods of guidance, and supporting staff skill development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to mentor staff in a furniture and furnishing making environment, providing guidance and support to help them develop their skills and knowledge
  • Understand how to supervise operations in a furniture and furnishing making environment, ensuring that work is carried out safely, efficiently, and to the required standards

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Design schemes in furnishingsHealth and Safety within furniture and furnishing making environmentsModern furniture upholsteryProduce drawings using CADProduction planning in furniture and furnishing makingPrototype design in modern upholsteryResearch and product design for modern upholsterySupervision in a furniture and furnishing making environment

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

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Where this connects

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City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma In Furnishings - Modern Upholstery
  • Create designs using CAD
  • Keep abreast of design trends and developments
  • Produce drawings and associated information
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Skills it covers

What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

Create designs using CADKeep abreast of design trends and developmentsProduce drawings and associated information

How you’ll actually learn this

One-to-one, on your own real work

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One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Design schemes in furnishingsLevel 3

Applied to your own work

This unit enables learners to research and analyse current design trends in furnishings. Learners will interpret design briefs, select suitable materials and components, and create design schemes with visual representations considering aesthetic and functional factors.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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Built for City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma In Furnishings - Modern Upholstery

8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City & Guilds Limited.

  1. Design schemes in furnishings
  2. Health and Safety within furniture and furnishing making environments
  3. Modern furniture upholstery
  4. Produce drawings using CAD
  5. Production planning in furniture and furnishing making
  6. Prototype design in modern upholstery

and 2 more in the full unit list below.

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  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
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Most courses stop at remembering

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  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

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The value

Why the companion is worth £70 a month

You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.

That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.

Earned on your own work, taught to the top.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.

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