Bachelor of Arts - Fashion Textile Design (Honours)

BA (Hons) Fashion Textile Design specialises in the surface and structure of cloth for fashion: printed, knitted, woven and embellished textiles developed through drawing, dyeing, digital print and machine knitting, with colour theory, repeat construction and CAD taught as the commercial grammar of the discipline.

The course pairs studio experimentation with the industry’s technical requirements — students design collections of fabrics that must work as garments, priced and produced within realistic constraints — and DMU’s textile facilities, including digital printing and knit technology, let ideas be realised in material rather than described on screen.

Admission is portfolio-led and the portfolio matters more than any transcript line, so applicants should assemble evidence of material curiosity — dyeing experiments, stitched samples, photographed surfaces, sketchbooks showing development rather than finished pieces alone — before applying. The recorded January windows across all cycles give unusual mid-year flexibility for a studio subject, and the £16,800 fee matches the design faculty standard. Students should also plan for materials costs, which vary sharply by chosen technique: knit and print work consumes considerably more than drawn or digital development.

Fashion context runs alongside the making: how textile ranges serve seasonal collections, how mills and converters operate, and how designers negotiate the gap between a print that photographs well and one that manufactures well — knowledge that separates employable textile graduates from decorative portfolios.

Careers span in-house textile roles, commercial print studios, freelance design selling and sourcing positions at £19,000–£24,000, with the Indian and Turkish textile economies valuing UK-trained designers particularly for export ranges. As a completed honours degree the course carries Graduate Route eligibility at the post-2027 18-month length, and dependants cannot accompany students on taught undergraduate routes.