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About Fashion And Textiles BA (hons) in University of West London

Take a fashion design course at UWL to learn the skills that will help you pursue a career in the fashion and textile industry.

The course covers a broad range of areas, from fashion illustration and textile design to pattern cutting and sewing. Study fashion and textiles with us to develop your own design voice as well as the technical expertise and knowledge, to enable you to compete globally within print, knit and fashion. 

We’re here to make you career-ready, and you will benefit from our strong links to the fashion industry to help you achieve that.

You will be guided by our inspiring fashion and textiles team, who are all active in the industry. 

We help you build confidence in your designs as well as your presentation skills, preparing you for a future in fashion and textiles. You’ll also be given an insight into how the fashion world functions commercially and the professional qualities required to survive in this competitive sector.

We teach through hands-on workshops, tutorials and lectures. You will develop technical skills including:

• screen and digital printing
• domestic and industrial knit/sewing machine skills
• pattern cutting
• fashion and textile design 
• fashion illustration
• fashion video production
• designing for a market.

You will have access to a range of specialist equipment and facilities, including:

• digital computer-aided design packages
• digital fabric printing
• 3D printing
• laser-cutting technologies
• industry-standard sewing and knitting machines
• fabric dyeing
• screen printing
• heatpress facilities.

From the start, you will experiment in all aspects of fashion and textile design. At the end of your first year, you will choose a direction for the rest of your course: fashion print or fashion knit.

To help develop your creative voice, you will work on personal design briefs as well as designing for market. Competitions, educational visits, guest lectures and design projects will bring what you study to life. 

In addition, we will support you in finding a work placement that provides experience, insight and understanding of your future career. Past students have interned at Roland Mouret, Proenza Schouler and TRAID.

You need to meet our English language requirement - a minimum of IELTS 5.5 for each of the 4 individual components (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening). 

Applicants with the following qualifications will be considered for entry on an undergraduate degree:

•    International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma (From a minimum 25 points depending on course)
•    British/ International A Levels (From a minimum 112 UCAS tariff points depending on course)
•    Indian Standard 12/HSC (minimum average of 55% depending on exam board)
•    Second and final year entry on a bachelor's degree may be available for those with a Higher National Diploma (HND) from the UK with a merit profile
•    A recognised foundation course

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