2-Semester Pathway - International Foundation Year - Art, Media and Architecture - Transfer to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Textile

Are you a creative person? Do you have a passion for design, making or material innovation? Textiles BA/BSc(Hons) allows you to explore the wide-ranging creative potential that this exciting and diverse subject area has to offer.

As a Textiles student, you will have the chance to develop your artistic skills and experiment with a breadth of materials and techniques in our world class workshop and studio environment. Workshops looking at areas such as print, knit, weave, embroidery and digital design will help you discover the type of textile practitioner that you are. Understanding this could provide you with the skills needed for a career in one of the myriad of industries that employ textile graduates each year.

We will encourage you to develop your creative, professional, intellectual and personal abilities as these are acknowledged as the key skills required for a broad range of textile related careers and if you opt for a four-year course you will have the chance to go on placement, gaining invaluable experience in the world of textiles. Previous placements have included companies such as Anthropologie, Mary Katrantzou, Bag it Don’t Bin it, Hand & Lock, The Hepworth Art Gallery, IKEA, The Knit and Crochet guild, Philip Treacy and John Lewis. The course is accredited by the Textile Institute, a worldwide organisation for textiles, clothing and footwear.