MA Textile Design

Program Overview

This MA Textile Design course prepares students for careers in textile design, whether in fashion, interior design, or art. Students develop their skills through industry exposure, personalized learning, and access to state-of-the-art facilities. Employability is emphasized, with graduates building a portfolio demonstrating their talents and industry knowledge. The program fosters a creative studio atmosphere where students can collaborate and draw inspiration from one another.

Program Outline

Careers:

Our graduates have gone on to pursue a broad variety of careers such as; designing for textile design agencies, becoming in-house designers for design houses or suppliers, or greeting card design. Past students have also set up their own design labels, have become design tutors or continued their studies at PhD level.

Other:

This MA textile design course is suitable if you’re a recent graduate or if you want to refocus your career. Whether your interests are in textiles for fashion, interior design or as a medium for art pieces, you’ll develop your skills and apply them to a range of textile media. Employability is key throughout this UK Textile Design master’s degree. You’ll also be co-located with MA Fashion Design students in a creative studio atmosphere where you can share ideas and draw inspiration from one another’s work. The facilities and equipment you’ll use are outstanding. They include: a Mimaki digital printer, heat-transfer printing and large hand screen-printing tables with adjoining screen exposing rooms and dye labs computerised Shima Seiki knitting machines across three gauges, a variety of single and doublebed Dubied knitting machines, linkers and manual knitting machines a state-of-the-art jacquard loom, a variety of computerised AVL dobby looms, and manual table looms the WSA library, with comprehensive collections of textiles books, journals and magazines as well as a wide range of other arts-related materials

Tuition fees Fees for a year's study: UK students pay £9,250. EU and international students pay £26,500.