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Textile designers are hugely influential on both fashion and the design of fabric for interiors. It is they who inspire these industries and help mould the future of our clothing and both home and work environments.
With this degree, graduates can enter a wide range of careers including studio designers or makers/artists, stylists, buyers, marketing officers, and freelance designers.
The Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors/Textile Art course provides you with the necessary skills to enter the Textile, Fashion or Interiors Industries as a Textile Designer. It will provide you with a rich educational and professional experience, and will challenge you to extend your creative abilities and practical and manual dexterity.
Theoretical and contextual understanding of design and making, together with a thorough and relevant professional training underpin both routes.
Year one:
The first year is diverse, and will introduce you to an imaginative programme of themes through a variety of creative workshops, lectures and tutorials. Visual studies and drawing provide the means for exploring ideas. Fundamental ideas about colour, pattern, texture, image and form, together with technical and practical hands-on making skills, are developed in your first year. Lively lectures and seminars examining the role of the Textile Designer in the Fashion and Interiors Industries will underpin your studio practice.
Year two:
You will continue to explore the Textile Designer’s input to the Fashion and Interiors Industries. You will start to make a decision, with the help of exciting, live, commercially biased projects, about which particular pathway you wish to follow. The emphasis here will be on you developing your individual and creative flair, coupled with a greater understanding of the commercial and professional Textiles Industry.
Year three:
In the final year, you will be focused on a professional approach, developing your own personal language of Textiles and research. External consultants, designers and makers contribute to this stage of your course. External student placements, and professional practices are encouraged, and opportunities for public exhibitions and International competitions are a key feature of this year. You will also have the opportunity of exhibiting your work at New Designers in London, the national showcase of emerging talent in the UK.
Assessment
You will be continuously assessed through a modular programme of practical and written projects.
UCAS code
W231
Entry qualifications and applications procedures
Please view this page on how to apply and the entry level for this programme. Essentially, we have an open mind on the qualifications you bring with you. We simply want to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile.
Further information
Programme Director Keireine Canavan: kcanavan@uwic.ac.uk
News
Shorelines Exhibition Australia
Dr. Cathy Treadaway will be exhibiting her research artwork in ‘Shorelines’ at the University Gallery, University of Newcastle NSW, Australia through October 2010. Her work comprises 2 and 3D prints, photographs and drawings made during a four year research project investigating ways in which digital technology supports creative practice. The exhibition also includes a series of twelve digital prints made in collaboration with the Scottish textile artist Alison F. Bell.
Dr Treadaway has been awarded Arts Council of Wales International Opportunities funding to visit Australia for the ‘Shorelines’ exhibition.
posted 2nd Sept '10
Dr Canavan meets British Ambassador
Textiles Programme Director and Principal Lecturer Dr Keireine Canavan recently accepted an invitation to meet the British Ambassador Frank Baker OBE. The meeting was principally to discuss the research Dr Canavan is undertaking on Bedouin AlSadu Weaving in Kuwait.
Ambassador Baker and Dr Canavan discussed their shared common concerns about the demise of this ancient tribal weaving craft in Kuwait and the Middle East and the importance of the research and information being collated at the Textile Permanent Collection at Sadu House.
posted 1st Sept '10
'Culture Candy' interviews Abi Trotman
2010 graduate Abi Trotman is interviewed in the Culture Candy blog, where she talks about her Summer Show work entitled 'Museum Series', and also about her time studying Textiles at CSAD, which she describes as an opportunity to 'find your own personal aesthetic language'- read the full article here.
posted 1st Sept '10
Dr Canavan's cover feature
Textiles Programme Director and Principal Lecturer Dr Keireine Canavan was recently featured in a cover article on reinterpreting Bedouin weaving for the United Arab Emirates 'The National: House and Home' newspaper.
The article reported on how reinterpreting textile patterns is helping Bedouin weavers in the UAE and Kuwait keep their heritage alive.
Read the full article here (pdf format).
posted 9th Aug'10
Graduate work hangs in the Welsh Assembly
2010 Textiles graduate Abi Trotman has been selected to have her work included in the offices of the First Minister and the Minister for Heritage at the Welsh Assembly.
Abi explained her piece of work which was presented to the Minister: “The piece (‘Fear’) is based on fear and emotions I experienced growing up right the way through to my adulthood. I used collage and photo-montage to create the piece – methods that I hold dear to me and I feel help to convey my particular aesthetic.”
Congratulations Abi!
posted 21st July '10
Dr Canavan at the V&A
Dr Keireine Canavan recently delivered a paper entitled ‘The Language of Bedouin Al Sadu Weaving’ at the Oral History Society Conference at the V&A Museum in London.
The conference took place from 2nd – 3rd July 2010. Fore more details on the conference, visit the Oral History Society website.
posted 8th July '10
CSAD Summer Show lecture
Textiles Principal Lecturer Dr Keireine Canavan will be delivering a lecture entitled ‘The Language of Bedouin Al Sadu Weaving’ on Thursday 10th June, 5:30pm, Lecture Room 1, Llandaff Campus. All Welcome.
Full Summer Show details here.
posted 13th May '10
Textiles students featured in Western Mail
CSAD Textiles students have been featured in the Western Mail for their collaboration with IKEA designing a range of eco-friendly fashion wear.
Read the full feature here (pdf format).
posted 13th May '10
Jennifer joins 'BEE Club'
Jennifer Roberts has joined the 'BEE Club' (a UWIC Enterprise group) business competition after being selected for the final round of the competition.
She presented her ideas to a panel of dragons in a Dragon's Den style business presentation, impressing the judges with her idea for bespoke wallpaper designs enhanced with fibre optic lights. Jennifer was the overall winner, receiving the £300 first place prize along with the offer of future business advice.
Since winning the competition she has been given the confidence to progress forward and will be presenting them as part of her course's degree show opening on 5th June 2010 at UWIC Llandaff Campus.
posted 12th May '10
Live Project visits Kuwait
Work created by 2nd year BA Textiles students for their Live Project will be exhibited in Kuwait as part of an International Exhibition. The 'Bags of Opportunity' International Exhibition will be held at IKEA Kuwait 18-25 April. The exhibition forms part of IKEA's ongoing 'Conservation of the Environment' and recycling campaign.
Congratulations to all BA Textiles students involved.
posted 13th Apr '10
Dr Canavan featured in Arab Times
BA Textiles Senior Lecturer Dr Keireine Canavan, currently on research sabbatical from CSAD, has been interviewed by the Arab Times for a feature on Al Sadu weaving.
In the interview Keireine talks about her enthusiasm for the subject, and her determination to play a part in the documentation and preservation of the craft for future generations.
Click here to view a pdf of the newspaper article.
posted 29th Mar '10
Philippa Lawrence wins major commission
BA Textiles Lecturer Philippa Lawrence has been awarded a major commission in Derbyshire.
re:place is an ambitious two-year curated programme of site-specific contemporary visual arts commissions and installations across Derbyshire of regional and national significance. The programme will run throughout 2008 - 2011.
More information on the re:place website.
posted 22nd Mar '10
Textiles student's design success
A talented textiles student from Cardiff School of Art & Design is hoping to see her work go into production this year after winning a prestigious competition sponsored by one of Wales’ leading woven textile brands.
posted 10th Feb '10
