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This BA (Hons) Design for Textiles (Fashion, Interior, Art) programme will provide you with an expertise in designing and producing innovative fabrics for a variety of outcomes. You’ll be encouraged to develop your own visual handwriting and taught how to translate and express this using a variety of media.

At the core of your textile design education is an appreciation of raw materials, innovation in technique, learning an in-depth design process, and how to design sustainably and responsibly to meet both the global and local challenges we face.

The combination of general textile lectures with teaching in innovation and design process, will boost your knowledge in both traditional and cutting-edge approaches. You’ll acquire an understanding and knowledge of knitted, woven and printed textiles, digital and Computer-Aided Design (CAD) technologies, marketing strategy, and sustainable practices within the fashion, interior, and textile art industries. This will enable you to respond effectively to the design challenges facing textile and related companies and apply your designs skills to the current and future needs of industry, making you highly employable upon graduation.

Entry Requirements

2026 entry requirements

Standard entry: 4 Highers at BBBB (two sittings) plus National 5 English.

Widening access entry: 4 Highers at BBBC (two sittings) plus National 5 English.

Entry to year 2 is possible with 2 Advanced Highers at BB plus 4 Highers at BBBB.

Selection is normally by application and submission of a portfolio. The portfolio should show an aptitude to textiles through use of colour, texture, rhythmic patternmaking and a logical design process. The ability to produce observational work in the form of both controlled and gestural drawing, painting and relief work should also be demonstrated.