Borås, Sweden
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 Mar 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
SEK 547,000 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* EU / EEA citizens and exchange students are not required to pay fees.
Key Summary
Introduction
Master Programme in Textile and Fashion Design, Specialisation in Textile Design
Our programme in Textile Design can take you further than you imagined. The Swedish School of Textiles, specialising in textile design, provides a forward-looking environment for rethinking and creating textiles within its expanded field, including Textile Craft, New Materiality, Innovation, and Digital Specialisms. It delves deep into the most relevant subjects and skills required for a career in the textile industry and related industries.
Programme content
- Practice-based design research
- Design methods and processes
- Material exploration
- Critical thinking in design
- Innovation and creativity
- Reflection and documentation
- Portfolio development and presentation skills
- Working with textiles in different contexts
- The importance of sustainable textile design practices
Studies
In our programme, you have the option to specialise in a particular area of Textile Design, allowing you to delve deeper into your areas of interest. Throughout each course, you'll receive supervision and engage in seminars designed to facilitate reflection on your own practices.
Moreover, our programme provides internships, offering valuable real-world experience in the field of Textile Design. Alongside this, we offer a diverse array of workshops, seminars, and guest lectures facilitated by researchers and industry professionals. These opportunities aid in your developing a comprehensive understanding of current topics, trends, and demands within academia and the industry.
Additionally, our programme provides opportunities to showcase your work on national and international platforms, enabling you to introduce your creations to the world and establish crucial networking connections.
Career
Graduates from a Master's programme specialising in Textile Design have a wide range of career opportunities, both nationally and internationally. Potential career paths for these graduates include becoming textile designers and we have former students working with prominent companies like Ikea, Volvo, TOYOTA, HAY, Ludvig Svensson, Indiska, and Norrøna, and many more where innovative textiles are created. Others may opt to pursue entrepreneurship, launching their own textile and fashion-related businesses or design studios, like Studio Juliette Berthonneau. Some graduates focus on sustainable development, collaborating with organisations and projects dedicated to environmentally friendly and socially responsible practices in the textile industry. Additionally, those inclined toward academia and research can pursue doctoral studies, opening doors to teaching and advancing knowledge within the field.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
For more information about scholarship options, please visit the university website.
Curriculum
As a student here, you will have the opportunity to explore and develop a subject you choose yourself through a series of project-based courses. You will develop and introduce theoretical concepts through experimental and practical design development. The educational programme places great emphasis on artistic research work and encourages experimental, investigatory work that pushes the boundaries of the performance wear field.
In the first year, you will deepen your knowledge and skills in design methods and techniques as well as your ability to critically reflect upon and define ideas for exploration and development through design.
The last year is devoted to design research and degree project work, followed by elective courses that further prepare you for a career in the fashion design sector with its various actors or a career in academia with a focus on doctoral studies.
During the two years of the programme, you will also meet every week with fellow students and faculty members in design seminars that introduce and discuss a broad range of perspectives on design practice and research, from ethics to materiality, from art to business, that will help build your knowledge and skills for more complex interdisciplinary collaborations.
Program Outcome
After graduation, you have the opportunity to continue studying for a PhD.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Graduates from the Master Programme with a Specialisation in Textile Design have moved on to national and international careers at companies such as Volvo, Ikea, Ludvig Svensson, HAY, Norrona, Indiska and many more. Graduates have also become entrepreneurship or pursued careers with organisations and projects driving sustainable development within the field. Additionally, graduates have continued with their careers in academia, pursuing research degrees, thus driving research and development within the field.
Program delivery
Society and collaboration
Borås and the surrounding Region Västra Götaland of Sweden are strong in textiles and clothing. That opens up for many different kinds of interesting opportunities for collaborations, learning, and experiences with business and research hubs as well as other type of actors in the sector. The Department of Design also coordinates and participates actively in several research and education networks internationally, offering exciting opportunities for collaboration in research and education. Moreover, the Swedish School of Textiles is also home to textile technology and textile business programmes at all study levels that, together, provide a platform for interdisciplinary perspectives and possible collaboration.