Textile Designer Career Description
Textile designers are responsible for the design of knitted, woven or printed textiles suitable for fashion wear or household uses.
What am I going to do in this occupation?
Textile designers use their skills and experience to produce surface designs and colorations as found in dress fabrics, furnishings, carpets, tiles etc. They use traditional sketches and painting techniques as well as high-tech computers to make their designs.
Textile design moves with current fashion and global trends and reflects many moods and cultures. International travel, to capture design ideas and trends, often becomes part of a skilled designer's work.
Requirements
What kind of personality do I need? Prospective textile designers will benefit from an interest in contemporary and retrospective movements in art, history and design. Sociological, psychological and lateral thinking is an integral part of textile designers' function, since they have society as a client. They must know and understand their clients. A feeling for fashion and new fashion trends is also important. In addition, textile designers must have a drawing ability, a "feel" for colour, a creative imagination and graphic interpretation skills.
Textile designers must be hard-working and be able to face considerable pressures concerning deadlines.
Where can I work?
Textile designers can work at textile companies, chain groups, boutiques, garment manufacturers, fashion houses, museums, textile studios, theatres etc.
Can I work for myself in this occupation?
Textile designers can work as consultants, do free-lance work or own their own textile design studios.
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