Subject Intent: Why Textiles & Fashion Design?
The intent of the Textile and Fashion Design curriculum is to progress student understanding through exposure to professional skills and techniques inherent to professional and undergraduate study in Textiles. Students are offered the chance to explore a range of textile art skills and specialist fashion design techniques. It gives students the experience of working to a live brief from the ideas generation stage, client profiling, and design ideas through to the production of final garments and exhibition pieces. These are essential skills and experiences necessary for success in any creative industry. Students prepare a personal portfolio of creative work that sets them up to work as designers in areas such as the fashion industry, marketing and communications, interior design, and textile art.
What will I study?
- Observational drawing
- Fashion illustration
- Garment construction
- Mark-making
- Fabric manipulation
- Embroidery
- Weave and knit
- Collage
- Printmaking
- Experimental textiles
- Felt-making
- Concept building and contextual research
- Portfolio presentation
- Time management and problem-solving skills
- Presentation skills
Textiles & Fashion Design
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What are lessons like in this subject?
You will work in a welcoming, creative, open studio environment. experiencing both traditional and contemporary Textile and Fashion Design processes. You will have access to industry standard Mac suites, sewing machines and screen-printing equipment alongside a range or experimental processes and materials across the Visual Arts department.
You will engage with live briefs, thinking like a designer in industry, from the ideas generation stage, client profiling, and design ideas through to the production of final garments and exhibition pieces. You will have talks from practitioners working in the textiles industry, to help your progression into creative degrees and job roles. You will also have a direct progression route onto our Foundation Art and Design Diploma based at the NCLT Trust HQ in Normanton, West Yorkshire.
What our
students
Studying textiles allowed me to explore my creativity and refining my techniques through the shared passion I had with my teachers for the world of fashion. This gave me the confidence to explore new techniques that I’ve never come across before, whilst portraying them in the most creative form I wanted!
Hayyan Khan, Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy
