GCSE: Art and design or Art and design textiles

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MY dd really wants to take both of these but can't. Any thoughts on which is best. She loves art but has an interest in fashion but has never done textiles before so its a risk to take it in case she doesn't get on with sewing etc. Just wondered re others experiences/ work loads/ future options for both of these

Not sure if this is common across all Art and Design boards, but DD is studying Textiles as one of her specialisms within an Art and Design GCSE (Fine Art is her other one, although you don't have to have 2 specialisms). So might be worth asking if this is something the school can accommodate, and then she could do as much or as little textiles as she wants?

My DD has just chosen art over textiles. She could have done both but decided she didn't want to do all the coursework of two. The textiles teacher said she could still do some textiles within her art Gcse if the creative urge took her there.

Ah that's interesting, thank you. Its tough making a choice when you've not tried one of the options but think you may want to have a career in those areas (of course she may change her mind several times before then!)

The textiles course at my college was more focused on textile making, creating patterns on fabric, dying textiles, knitting, weaving, fabric making that kind of textiles not so much sewing fashion so she might want to keep that in mind.

My art at GCSE level was purely art focused though but it will focus a lot of art history and well as a good basis of art techniques, colour theory etc so I'd be leaning towards art and then maybe she could take a fashion design course at college of that's something that still interests her, my art course at college had a fashion sewing course includes within it.

I had one DD do fine art (very similar to art and design) and one DD do art and design textiles at GCSE. We all think (including DD) that textiles was a waste of time despite getting a good grade. It was mainly sticking buttons on with a glue gun.
I would definitely recommend art and design (esp if she likes drawing) and she can incorporate elements of textiles into her art.

I'd go with art and design as what she learns there can be applied to textiles. She could then specialise further at A level.
My daughter is doing art and design but it is more fine art, but it easy enough to turn her art into a textile design (we are opening an online shop soon).

Thank you all-really good advice