Course summary

Do you have a passion for all things textiles? This course will prepare you for a range of career pathways across textile design and manufacture. You’ll learn how to create textiles, as a sustainable raw material for designs used in fashion or interiors – via surface decoration, fabric manipulation and textile construction – and you’ll get to grips with the practice using knit, weave, print or embroidery equipment and facilities. Teaching is via tutors with professional experience in textile design, surface design and textile craft in our £30-million, purpose-built Barbara Hepworth Building. You’ll work alongside fashion designers, artists, and photographers in an exciting, interdisciplinary atmosphere, gaining and honing skills and becoming industry-ready ahead of graduation. Why Study Textiles BA/BSc(Hons) at University of Huddersfield? If you have a love of design, fashion, interiors, illustration, photography, art and design, and other creative mediums, you may find textiles is a complementary subject area. On this course, you’ll develop your skills and technique on a relevant industry placement or by setting up your own business through our unique Enterprise Placement Year. You’ll also explore and ultimately specialise in print, knit, weave or embroidery. Our academic and technical staff will help you gain practical hands-on skills, using hand techniques and digital technology. Discover the type of textile practitioner that you are, too and investigate how textile design can emerge through creative play. Explore the process of drawing for textiles, research and develop from concept to creation and find resourceful and inventive ways to illustrate design and craft outcomes. Advance your creative, professional, and intellectual abilities, too – in preparation for a prospective future career in textiles – via industry experience opportunities such as sponsored projects, competitions, placements, guest lectures or freelance business development support. Following a textiles course, you could go on to work in a range of careers in. These include textiles for interiors, textiles design, graphics design, textiles manufacturing, textiles technology, the fashion industry, trend forecasting, textiles for costume, art and design and more. Professional Bodies This course is accredited by the Textile Institute, a worldwide organisation for textiles, clothing, and footwear. Students who graduate from this course can apply for the professional qualification, Associateship and Chartered Membership of the Textile Institute. Why Huddersfield? Huddersfield’s vibrant and friendly campus is a great place from which to study, while the town itself offers lots to see and do, with good transport links in and around the area.