Textile Design

Leeds University Business School

Postgraduate

In Leeds

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Leeds

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This degree gives you the chance to cultivate your creativity in textile design, while acquiring specialist skills in a stimulating environment. Not only will you develop your professional practice and question your creativity, but you’ll benefit from studying at a Russell Group university that gives you a solid academic grounding to put your work into context – gaining professional skills that will really appeal to employers.
Core modules will introduce you to the principles of design, while you explore fundamental aspects of textile design. You’ll also gain insight into the historical and cultural contexts of the field of design, and textile design in particular. As you progress you’ll specialise in either structured textiles, including knitted, woven, stitched and manipulated textiles, or digital textiles, where you’ll explore surface pattern for textiles, wall coverings and other surfaces. In each pathway you’ll have the opportunity to work on designs for fashion or interiors.
Specialist facilities
We have plenty of facilities to help you make the most of your time at Leeds. You’ll be able to develop your practice in spacious, well-lit and well-equipped studios, as well as purpose-built computer clusters so you can build your CAD skills.
The University is also home to the Yorkshire Fashion Archive, containing a huge variety of haute couture, fashion garments and everyday clothing bought and worn by Yorkshire locals throughout the 20th century – a great resource for your own research and design.
We also house the M&S Company Archive including documents, advertising, photos, films, clothing and merchandise from throughout Marks & Spencer’s history. It provides a fascinating insight into how fashion and homewares within the marketplace have changed and continue to evolve..
ULITA, an archive of international textiles, is housed on campus and collects, preserves and documents textiles and related areas from around the world

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Leeds (North Yorkshire)
Maurice Keyworth Building, The University Of Leeds, LS2 9JT

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About this course

Entry requirements
A-level: ABB
including an art or design-related subject and not including General Studies or Critical Thinking. If you don’t have an art or design-related subject but you are taking Media Studies A-level, we may also consider your application based on a high grade at GCSE in Art/Design and a portfolio of recent and relevant work.
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Subjects

  • Design
  • Textile Design
  • Drawing
  • Art
  • University
  • Textiles

Course programme

You’ll spend your first year working on drawing and repeat pattern skills, as well as constructed textiles techniques such as knit and stitch and the use of colour. You’ll also gain an insight into the technological and cultural aspects of art and design. Once you have a solid grounding in these skills, you’ll be able to specialise over the next two years of your degree.

Within digital textiles, you’ll focus on textiles for fashion or interiors, experimenting with techniques such as laser cutting and digital fabric printing or combining the two in materials manipulation. Throughout the degree, you’ll work on drawing, repeat pattern drafting and in-depth market research.

Whether you choose knitted, woven, stitched or manipulated textiles within the structured textiles route, you’ll be able to develop innovative, contemporary designs for fashion or interiors based on your own visual and market research. You’ll use different media to explore the potential of knitted and stitched textile structures and techniques, and you’ll learn how to influence the form, colour, 3D structuring and other properties of textile materials.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Fundamentals of Imaging 20 credits
  • Design for Textiles 1B 20 credits
  • Design for Textiles 1C 20 credits
  • Material Culture and Mass Consumption 20 credits
  • Design History: 1900 to the Present day 10 credits
Optional modules
  • Green Design and Sustainability 10 credits
  • Introduction to Photography (Digital) 10 credits
  • Patterns and Culture 10 credits
  • Colour and the Design Process 10 credits
  • Fashion Brand Analysis 10 credits
  • Drawing 1A 10 credits
  • Drawing 1B 10 credits
  • Technologies for Art and Design 10 credits

Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Research Methods 1: Finding and Using Research Resources 10 credits
  • Research Methods 2: Research, Writing and Dissertation 10 credits
  • Marketing Creativity and Innovation 20 credits
  • Design for Textiles 2A 20 credits
  • Design for Textiles: Specialisms 20 credits
Optional modules
  • Knitted Fabric Technology for Design 10 credits
  • Garment Technology for Knitwear 10 credits
  • Contemporary Art and Memory 10 credits
  • Photography (Digital) 10 credits
  • Class, Taste and Society: Interpreting Designed Objects. 10 credits
  • Fashion Management 10 credits

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