Textile & Apparel Design
Textile & Apparel Design focuses on inventive approaches to the development and realisation of contemporary textiles and fashion. The structure of the course allows technology and skills to inform the design process and foster creativity. Students on this journey encounter the entire spectrum from natural fibre and materials to exploring the latest in 3D surfaces and fibre technologies (pattern and texture). Our curriculum is intricately intertwined with the study of the indigenous techniques and technology and a thorough understanding of local resources.
Key Courses
In Textile and Apparel Design, students relates the physical properties of textiles to basic human needs for functional and fashionable clothing and home accessories and in the development of textile and fashion concepts and products, including their fabrication and presentation.
Textile Semantics
Examine the communicative qualities in textiles which inform the generation and exchange of meaning between the textile practitioner and the viewer.
Fashion Architecture
Pattern making is an art that forms a relationship between flat pattern pieces and 3-dimensional garments. Learn the techniques of advanced pattern making and draping to achieve structures and fits of more complex designs.
Garment Construction
It involves the application of all the fundamentals of apparel making- Pattern making/draping and sewing techniques, as well as material handling- marking, pinning, basting, trimming, pressing, stabilizing.
Smart Textiles
Smart textiles are able to sense stimuli from the environment, to react to them and adapt to them by integration of functionalities in the textile structure.
Colour, Material & Finish
Course focuses on the chromatic, tactile and decorative identity of products and environments.
Apparel
Acquire the knowledge of costumes, accessories, visual merchandising and quality control in the garment industry.
Students work
Students have understood various design theories and have implemented them in their on-going projects
