Certificate IV in Textile Design and Technology

Program Overview

This program prepares students for careers in textile design, encompassing various applications such as fashion, interiors, and homewares. Graduates can pursue roles as textile design assistants, knitters, weavers, and screen printers, or explore related fields like fabric importing, design education, and sustainable design. The program emphasizes collaboration with clients, experimentation with materials, and adherence to industry standards.

Program Outline

Careers

As a textile designer, you will create designs for knitted, woven and printed fabrics or textile products for a range of contexts, including fashion, interiors, homewares, craft and other commercial applications. You can also work with graphics, packaging, greetings cards, ceramics, wrapping and wallpaper. You can work as a textile design assistant, knitter, weaver and screen printer, fabric wholesaler, and studio assistants in screen printing companies and textile manufacturing companies. You may also find work in other associated areas, such as: fabric importing and distribution design education and community arts department store fabric buying sustainable design. Typical work activities may include: liaising with clients to plan and develop original designs interpreting client ideas by producing sketches, mocked-up designs and samples for presentation to customers assessing production standards experimenting with colour, fabric, fibres and texture maintaining up-to-date knowledge of new design and production techniques and textile technology meeting industry specifications working to a design brief and timeline.