Bachelor of Arts - Textile Design (Honours)

BA (Hons) Textile Design takes the discipline beyond apparel into interiors, homeware and surface applications: weave, print, knit, stitch and mixed-media practice explored across three years, with colour, material and construction studied as a designer’s core vocabulary and CAD used to move handwork into producible form.

Where the fashion-facing textile route serves garments, this course serves environments and products — upholstery, wall coverings, ceramics and packaging all appear as destinations for surface work — and briefs frequently come from interiors and product clients whose requirements differ sharply from apparel’s seasonal cycle.

The interiors market operates on longer cycles than fashion, which changes career rhythm significantly: ranges live for years rather than seasons, client relationships endure, and freelance income proves steadier as a result — a structural difference worth explaining to families who assume all textile work follows fashion’s volatility. The recorded January entries add mid-year admission flexibility at the standard £16,800 design-faculty fee, and students should budget separately for materials, since weave and print practice carries meaningful consumable costs across all three years of studio work.

Studio practice is materially serious: looms, print tables, dye laboratories and digital output sit alongside sketchbook development, and assessment values the resolved sample range as much as the idea, because textile employment is judged on what can actually be produced at scale.

Graduates enter interior textile studios, licensing and surface-design roles, craft practice and technical positions at £19,000–£24,000, with the homeware market’s steadier rhythms often proving kinder than fashion’s. Completion of the honours degree confers Graduate Route rights for 18 months under the rules applying from January 2027, with dependants excluded throughout taught study.