TEXTILE DESIGN

Textile is a craft as old as human civilization. The four year programme incorporates the current, the traditional and the classical design practices in the profession. It is an interface between material and making that creates a challenging and dynamic environment. Patterns, weaves, knits, embroidery, embellishment and value addition through motifs, colours, materials, fashion trends and visual merchandising are some of the areas of textile design. The young textile designers are trained to face challenges pertaining to industry and economy, individual and society, techniques and technologies. The department trains the students to weave new ideas into industry or industry into their ideas, by making them work around a rigorous routine of industry based internship programmes.

The department maintains hand looms, block printing, manual screen printing, and dyeing of fabric and yarn facilities as well as a computer lab for technological solutions. Ecologically and environmentally sustainable design issues are made an important concern of the course. Hence courses and workshops on naturally extracted dyes and their applicability are an important part of the curriculum. Fabric construction, surface treatments, colour, pattern and trend forecast are the basics for a textile designer but an ethical and conscientious design practice is also a must for a textile designer.

Textiles is an ancient craft when entering the domain of Design, touches unfathomable depths of creativity. The Bachelor Degree Programme, while incorporating the sensibilities of the traditional, the classical and the contemporary, maintains an interface between materials and making, that creates a challenging and dynamic environment. Creation of patterns, weaves, embellishment and further value addition through motifs, colours and materials by following current fashion trends and visual merchandising are some of the major areas of textile design in which the Department trains the students. The young textile designers of the future are trained to face challenges pertaining to industry and economy, individual and society, techniques and technologies. The department expects and encourages the students to bring forth and experiment with new ideas without a fear of unsuccessful outcomes. It firmly believes that overcoming the fear of failure makes a good designer.

Ecologically and environmentally sustainable design issues are an important and inherent concern of the course. The Department maintains that fabric construction, surface treatments, colour, pattern and trend forecast are the basics for a textile designer but an ethical and conscientious design practice is also a must for a ‘thinking’ textile designer.

The department maintains hand looms, printing and dyeing facilities as well as a computer lab for technological solutions.

Industry-based and craft-interventionist internships are arranged and highly encouraged.

Foundation Semesters

1st Semester

2nd Semester

3rd Semester

4th Semester

5th Semester

6th Semester

7th Semester

8th Semester

Thesis 15 credits

Elective Courses

From 3rd semester onwards, a student will be able to choose elective courses from within his/her department and from other departments with the help of assigned advisor. Each Elective Course will be of 2 credit hours.