Textiles

Nottingham Trent University
Postgraduate MA Full-time 1 Year ArtFashion, textiles, and jewelleryGraphic designProduct design

About this course

This course gives you the opportunity to explore and develop your skills in the specialist areas of printed, embroidered, knitted, woven, laser cut or multimedia textiles. You'll devise an individual project and we will support your creative thinking and experimentation, helping you to develop new or smart design concepts, fabrications and prototypes. You will work alongside other MA Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design students in our dedicated postgraduate studio. We will support your creative thinking and experimentation, helping you to develop your research and practice, leading to the development of new or smart design concepts, fabrications and prototypes. Our extensive textile design facilities will give you the opportunity to use a range of traditional and computerised technologies.

Modules include:

  • Culture and Collaboration

  • Situating your Practice

  • Innovation in Textile Practice

  • Professional Futures

  • Advancing Research Design

    Key features:

  • Benefit from the professional expertise of our academic staff, researchers and visiting designers such as Orsola de Castro, Dr. Katherine Townsend, Karen Nicol, Kit Miles, Lisa Salama, Hannah Croft, Angharad Mclaren, Jo Cope, and Moxham.

  • You will be invited to submit your work to be considered for exhibition at London’s New Designers, xSelect (formerly Texprint) and SPINEXPO in Shanghai, China.

  • Subject to government guidelines, you may have the opportunity to visit London and join optional European study trips to Florence, Antwerp and Paris.

  • Opt for a 20 credit point advanced research module if you’re thinking of progressing to PhD or Professional Doctorate study

  • 83% of NTU's research submitted to the 'Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory' Unit of Assessment was assessed to be world-leading or internationally excellent in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.

    Your space to create at NTU We’re committed to helping you explore, expand and refine your craft, as you discover new creative horizons with some truly great tools, equipment and workspaces. Visit our facilities hub at www.ntu.ac.uk/artfacilities to find out more.

  • Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    7125 Visual merchandisers and related occupations
    3422 Clothing, fashion and accessories designers
    3421 Interior designers
    5413 Tailors and dressmakers
    3429 Design occupations
    3553 Merchandisers

    Course Details

    Qualification
    MA
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    1 Year
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Nottingham
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    Art, Fashion, textiles, and jewellery, Graphic design, Product design