Textile Design For Fashion And Interiors BA (hons) in Bath Spa University, UK

Textile Design For Fashion And Interiors BA (hons) in Bath Spa University

A dynamic and demanding fashion and textile design degree for the designers and innovators of the future.

• Engage with professionals through 'live' industry briefs and placement opportunities in the UK and abroad.
• Immerse yourself in our strong studio culture and visit specialists, trade fairs, exhibitions and museums.
• Our graduates have been employed by companies including Selfridges, Joules and Anthropologie.

We provide ambitious students with a dynamic practical and theoretical design education, supported by industry networks and directed towards the development of a creative career or advanced research in the textile discipline.

Develop your creativity within the broad and complex field of traditional and contemporary textile design, through intellectual enquiry combined with aesthetic sensibility. The course is supported by drawing workshops and underpinned with comprehensive knowledge of digital textile printing technologies. 

Find out more about our students' work through the Textile blog and our Pinterest account.

Overview

We offer a strong studio culture in which students are inspired to express their design direction, exercising initiative and personal responsibility.

Individually negotiated student-led lines of enquiry are encouraged and supported by a wide range of thorough contextual underpinning and professional practice, which includes live industry briefs, competitions, forecasting and external exhibition opportunities. Students demonstrate self-direction in extending networks for creating work-based learning opportunities and gaining internships.

We intend to equip students with the necessary research, practical, technical, aesthetic and problem solving skills to develop and adapt their emerging practice for their future careers, which include team working, an appreciation of diversity, reflection and self-evaluation and the capacity to work independently to determine personal future learning needs.

Opportunities

Work placements, industry links and internships

Professionals engage with the students setting ‘live’ external briefs, through the visiting lecture programme, and by leading master-classes or workshop activities.

We expect our students to be active in gaining work-based experience in addition to the learning opportunities relating to employability throughout the course. Generally, paid-internships are to be undertaken in the final weeks of your second year or during the summer academic break between your second and final years.

Past opportunities have included the following: Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Bay & Brown, Michael Angove, Calvin Klein,Ted Baker, Nina Ricci, Paperclip, Tracy Kendall, Sam Pickard, Clarissa Hulse, Jenny King, Whiston and Wright, Karen Nicol, Milena, Chloé, Nicole Farhi, Jessica Ogden, Zandra Rhodes, Dewhurst, Philip Treacy, Ling Design, Hallmark and Tiger Print,  Mary Katrantzou, Holly Fulton, Selvedge Tent London, and/or solo exhibitions.

Careers

Textile Design graduates have secured employment in a range of career directions, worked for design studios and design companies, set up their own businesses or developed related careers within retail and the broader fashion and interior industries. Our graduates have also continued with their studies, undertaking MAs, PGCEs or PhDs.

Employers of graduates from the BA (Hons) Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors include:

• Liberty
• The White Company
• Bay & Brown
• Lyle & Scott
• Keeler Gordon
• Debenhams
• G.M Syntex
• Relish Clothing
• IVO Prints
• Selfridges
• Boden
• Joules
• Marks & Spencer
• Hand and Lock
• Hallmark
• Anthropologie.

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