FASHION AND TEXTILES (TEXTILE DESIGN) PROGRAMME
Duration – 4 years
The Fashion and Textiles discipline offers broad spectrum education in textiles while developing creativity, originally and design application in apparel and home fashion industry. The course has been designed to meet the requirements of the emerging market realities and enables access to wide range career opportunities with Indian and international organizations, textile mills and exporters, buying houses, design houses and designers.
The Fashion & Textile discipline is based on the belief that the textile discipline of knitting, weaving and printing are complementary and together can give a rich and more versatile education. Simultaneous inputs about the broad historical, social and cultural contexts in which the designers work today are imparted to students to sharpen their perspective, while those on CAD/CAM/IT, enhance the abilities to work with emerging tools of the trade.
Textile design forms the core of the whole business of fashion. The rapidly expanding activities in the export and domestic sectors of the Indian apparel and home fashion industry demands professional inputs in design and development of textiles and raw material, which is responsible for 60-80% of the product cost. Textile Design today is economically viable and profitable proposition.
Course Contents
Year 1
1st Year (2 Semesters) of Fashion and Textiles (Textile Design) students is common foundation programme. All the students have common subjects to learn are:
Elements of Design, Geometry, Visualization Representation, Overview of Fashion, Material Studies, Computer Application, Field Study, and Integrated Term Project.
Year 2
Focus on introduction to textile terminology namely, weaving, printing, embroidery and dyeing. It will also lay emphasis on fundamentals of graphic software and its usage for image creation. The important subjects taught in second year are:
Fashion Studies, Surface Techniques, Textile Science, Introduction to Weaving and Knitting Skills, Appreciation of Traditional Indian Textiles, Digital Imaging and Editing Techniques, Research Methodology and Documentation, Design Process, Fashion Illustration, Theory of Woven Structures, Woven Structures, Introduction to Chemical Processing, Fashion Marketing and Textile Design Development.
Field visits and Internship with textile mills, printing units and other processing houses are an important part of the curriculum.
Year 3
Further to the subjects taught in the second year, it will strengthen the knowledge base of students, imparting design, technical, and marketing and communication skills. The subjects taught are:
Advanced Woven Structures, Textile Printing & Finishing, Surface Techniques II, CAD for Print, Fashion Merchandising, Print Design Project, Basic Pattern Making & Construction Methods, Fabric Quality Analysis & Assurance, Digital Presentation Techniques, Dobby & Carpet CAD, Woven Design Project, Fabric Styling and two department elective subjects.
The students will also undertake a Craft Survey and Documentation to be exposed to a craft environment.
Year 4
Students will undertake a number of elective subjects to fine tune their understanding of the industry and also an independent research based project. In the final semester, students will undertake a Graduation Project with and industrial client, export house, designer or a NGO. During this period the students will be required to work on the brief given by the sponsor. The Programme will culminate into a Graduation Show.
The programme introduces students to design sensibility, and helps prepare the students to find creative and innovative design solutions with the understanding of production particulars. It also provides the students with field level exposure at all levels of craft based and industrial production, laying importance on technology and market related inputs. The students translate their designs into samples/prototypes by working in dyeing, printing and weaving workshops.
Opportunity / Careers
The programme prepares students for a wide range of careers in textile mills and export houses , with fashion designer, design studios, mills, buying house, handloom cooperatives and buying agencies and Design or Fabric Managers, or work independently as Designers or Entrepreneurs.
Current Activities
Launch of Continuing Education Programme
- Fashion Integration and Marketing Application for Textiles
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