Design & Applied Arts, BA (Hons) Textile Design

You will investigate design across a variety of areas, from surface pattern designs to traditional and digital fabric printing, floor coverings, rug and carpet design, textile manipulation, leatherwork and the latest computer aided design systems for textile design.

View the BA (Hons) Textile Design course overview and entry requirements.

Why choose this course?

This exciting degree provides you with the opportunity to explore your creative potential and realise textile design for fashion accessories (this could be bags, belts, shoes, or jewellery from textiles) or the textile design for the interior.

You will investigate design across a wide range covering surface pattern design, traditional and digital fabric printing, floor coverings, rug and carpet design, textile manipulation, leatherwork and CAD for textile design.

It gives you the opportunity to study topics that promote individual creativity centred on textile design for interiors and fashion accessories.

There is a strong emphasis on visual research, aesthetic and design translation, underpinned by the skill and knowledge required to develop textile design for fashion and interior products.

You will use the latest CAD/CAM technology to realise your ideas.

You will develop the skills and creative disciplines required to design textiles for fashion and interiors.

Live projects allow you to integrate your personal creative expression with the needs of industry.

Personal study in your final year allows you to explore your creative practice in depth.

Work-based learning allows you the opportunity to explore career options and forge links with your related industries.

Teaching and learning consists of studio and workshop activities, seminars and lectures, contextual field trips, individual and group project-based work and self-directed research.