Foundation Studies

Introduction

The Textile Design program prepares students to meet today’s imaginative, technical and intellectual demands of the textile and printing industry.
This department proudly retrieves its decades of reputation based on student’s extraordinary creative achievements resulting from a thorough knowledge of Textile materials and processes of dyeing, weaving and printing.

It is a department where ideas are inspired by wide ranging visual studies, personal environments and nature. Students are encouraged to develop high-end customized methodologies of observation and analyze specific strategies for the transformation of ideas into tangible and usable design. With in-depth lectures a range of professional advice the courses in this department aim to produce not only excellent designers but also skilled professionals capable of supporting the industry. This department is also one of the first in the country to venture into environmentally friendly reusable and sustainable materials via strategic research and execution of intelligent design.

The department maintains professional and industrial acquaintances and regularly participates in local and national textile trade fairs and completions of apparel design.