Outline
BA Textiles offers a rich exploration of materials in their broadest sense for a wide range of contexts and outcomes.
We encourage you to take an experimental approach towards materials and processes to produce innovative, contemporary and questioning design work.
We advocate for you to find your own personal and individual approach to textiles. We will help you to identify alternative options and propositions for design and making, with considered approaches and sustainability at their heart.
This may include textiles:
- for fashions, interiors or products
- as communication or for alternative contexts
What you will cover
You will explore combinations and compositions of:
- imagery
- drawing
- materials
- texture
- colour
- pattern
You will look at textiles in two and three dimensions. We support a wide-ranging approach to drawing and personal research and encourage you to:
- embrace new technology
- develop new ways of working
- find your individual approach to textiles
- study traditional and foundational textile techniques in print and mixed media
- consider sustainability and develop your material awareness
- create vibrant and unexpected responses to textile challenges, propositions and design problems
Your technical proficiency will be focused on textile print processes with a further layer of:
- mixed media
- embroidery
- construction
- innovative biomaterial and regenerative material exploration