Masters Degrees (Textiles)

Textiles are literally and figuratively woven into human history and culture. Today communities of makers, designers, and scholars are exploring textiles — from locally crafted materials to 3D knitted matter to hand-embellished fabrics — and pioneering textile-based industries and theory. Read more

MA Printed Textiles for Fashion & Interiors. offers a practice based, design led experience, which develops your creative vision and redefines your professional practice. Read more

On this postgraduate degree you will advance your individual creative practice in Contemporary Textiles. Develop your knowledge and understanding of current critical debate. Read more

Our Fashion and Textiles Design degree explores concepts and contemporary topics in design, fashion and textiles. The course aims to develop practice-based learning, informed by an in-depth study of design. Read more

You will study at our Markeaton Street site which has both traditional and industrial equipment, and advanced new technology in our fashion and textiles' studios and other specialised workshops. Read more

This postgraduate fashion degree explores concepts and contemporary topics in design, fashion and textiles. The course will give you an in-depth understanding of business processes and functions within the industry’s creative foundations. Read more

The increased understanding and use of textiles as both a decorative and technical material has led to a rapid expansion of the industry into areas such as architecture and engineering. Read more

Natural polymers like cellulose, chitin, chitosan, alginate are one of the most abundant and renewable polymer with robust mechanical properties. Read more

The Masters (MSc) course in Textile Technology (Technical Textiles) enables you to develop a high level of understanding of modern textiles, preparing you for a career in the textile or related industries as a manager or researcher, or for an academic career. Read more

Textiles offer uniquely fluid, flexible and infinitely adaptable ways of questioning, examining and solving the some of the societal challenges that face us. Read more

Our. MA Textiles course. is constructed around the development of individual research into textile culture, craft and design. It will enable you to combine previous experience of textiles practice with a personal project. Read more

The Fashion and Textiles pathway within the Programme enables you to develop the skills, critical understanding and specialist knowledge required to become a successful independent fashion or textiles designer or work within a related creative sector. Read more

This programme offers a rich and stimulating exploration of materials and textile processes. It has applications spanning a broad range of contexts and challenging any boundaries which may define what textiles can be. Read more

Product Innovation with textiles offer a holistic approach, providing you with a strong grounding in textile properties, and sustainability in order to inspire and guide your textile product innovations. Read more

Students on this course cultivate an innovative view of surface design. They are challenged to ruthlessly explore pattern and decoration, reflecting on the social, cultural and aesthetic context for surface pattern design and textiles in the 21st century. Read more