Fashion Textiles: Embroidery

BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles: Embroidery will help you become a creative designer for fashion textiles through the specialist pathway of embroidery. In this course you will be able to explore surface pattern and texture for fashion fabrics. You will study a variety of traditional craft and contemporary embroidery and embellishment processes.

What can you expect?

The BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles: Embroidery focuses on inventive approaches to the development and realisation of contemporary fashion textiles. We believe that technology and skills inform the design process and foster creativity. This course benefits from the most extensive range of embroidery craft machines within the UK. This includes the latest equipment for digital embroidery production, laser cutting and engraving.

Students on this course will study a range of print processes which will extend their potential for creative design. Students will learn to apply technical skills, technology and their individual creativity. This will help them become innovative and original textile designers able to design for international markets ranging from high street to couture.

The course will develop your skills in research, drawing, design development, fashion textile manufacture, 3D awareness, forecasting and trend development and market analysis. You will also build an awareness of textile and fashion ethics such as sustainability.

During the course you will undertake a range of projects, many of which are in conjunction with specific labels or companies. This wider involvement with industry and society is invaluable to your development as a designer. Fashion textile students also participate in international competitions, winning awards with annual competitions such as Texprint, Hand and Lock and NOW competition with I-D Magazine.

London College of Fashion (LCF) undergraduate courses develop your personal and professional skills. On this course you will develop skills in your discipline until you are an independent creative thinker. Your skills will make you capable of making an effective contribution to this sector of the fashion industry. We embed Personal and Professional Development (PPD) skills in all units on every course. Speaker programmes with contributions from alumni and members of industry are a part of many courses. We encourage graduates who wish to continue their education at postgraduate level to progress to suitable courses within the College, the University or elsewhere.

Many graduates prefer to seek employment as soon as they have completed their undergraduate studies. Graduates from this course have worked with companies including Louis Vuitton, Mary Katrantzou, Topshop and Adidas.

About London College of Fashion

London College of Fashion, UAL, has been nurturing creative talent for over a century, offering courses in all things fashion. In design, we teach a combination of heritage and radical thinking. Craftsmanship and new technology. Engineering – and in-depth design research. We teach innovative ideas first – and then innovative practice to bring them to life. Through teaching, specialist research, and collaborative work, we empower our students to think differently, using fashion to examine the past, build a sustainable future, and improve the way we live.