Textile and Apparel Design

Textile and Apparel Design is a discipline that combines textiles, fashion, technique, technology, and an empowered creative process. This is further layered with an understanding of culture as a resource for design through field studies and documentation. The traditional wisdom of using skills, materials, tools, and approaches remains at the core of the program. As TAD designers, students are enabled to develop new design applications using traditional and innovative approaches, by applying their intellectual, aesthetic, and technological abilities. As an end goal, these designers will be capable of defining a narrative behind textiles, while using them as a source of cultural upliftment.

Learning Outcomes

Fundamentals of design, specific textile and apparel methods, textile fibers, weave structures, surface design, dyeing techniques, and coloration, printing methods, pattern making, draping and sewing techniques, and constructed textiles. On the technical end, they learn pattern extraction, 3D surface work, technical sketching, and application. On the broader front, they learn inputs related to art appreciation, design research, design process, design management, sustainable textile, and apparel design methods.

Scope in the industry

The discipline equips students with design thinking, research and ideation skills which broaden their prospects for various design entrepreneurship,& industry, crafts sector, and various design sectors.