Fashion textile designers play an important role in the fashion industry, linking their artistic skill with a practical understanding of garment materials and production processes to create the clothes we love. This hands-on design course will teach you how to experiment with different ways of creating prints, textures and surface decoration before developing your own collection of textile designs.

Your tutor will monitor you all the main elements of textile design, focusing on the design process and on print and surface textile design. You will learn where to find encouragement, methods of mark-making, how to modify scale and how to develop your own ideas and style. You also learn how to create a colour palette and will increase a practical understanding of the materials, tools and production processes used widely within the Fashion textile industry. This is a creative course for persons desiring to expand their visual design collections.