Textile Design

Reid Building, 23 students

The work of the Textile Design 2025 cohort demonstrates exploration of ideas through drawing, colour, design, materials and technical processes. Inspiration and project themes include natural and manufactured environments, personal collections, religious relics, heritage details, form, reflection and distortion, place, memory and well-being. Responsible and sustainable design manifests through material, process, application and context.

Textile Design at The Glasgow School of Art encourages learning from heritage techniques and innovation through process, material, colour and design. We offer the opportunity to study weave, knit, print and embroidery before specialisation in one of these pathways.

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Textile Design 2025

from Woven Alchemy

from Woven Alchemy

Final fabric selection developed with careful consideration of context, colour harmony, durability, and cost efficiency, ensuring a balanced approach between design intent and automotive industry requirements.

from Automotive Colour, Material & Finish Exploration

from Automotive Colour, Material & Finish Exploration

Design development process shown from initial sketches to digital design and trial samples, exploring thread qualities and stitch types to achieve the desired aesthetic and performance in automotive textiles.

from Automotive Colour, Material & Finish Exploration

from Language of Flowers

from Language of Flowers

from Language of Flowers

from Language of Flowers

from Processes and Development

from Final Collection

from Drawings

from Drawings

from Visualisations

from Through the Lens

from Digital floral repeat collection

from Digital floral repeat collection

from Digital floral repeat collection

from Through the Lens

from Interwoven Reflections

from Additional Portfolio Project

from Interwoven Reflections

from Additional Portfolio Project

from Additional Portfolio Project

from Marine leisure: Abstraction and Endurance

from Marine leisure: Abstraction and Endurance

from Marine leisure: Abstraction and Endurance

from Marine leisure: Abstraction and Endurance

from Marine leisure: Abstraction and Endurance

from Sensory Stillness

from Sensory Stillness

from Additional Portfolio Project

from Sensory Stillness

from Sensory Stillness

from MEMORPHOSIS

from MEMORPHOSIS

from RESEARCH

from SKETCHBOOK

from DIGITAL WORK

from Wild Adornment: Textile Tales of the Animal Kingdom

from Wild Adornment: Textile Tales of the Animal Kingdom

from Wild Adornment: Textile Tales of the Animal Kingdom

from Wild Adornment: Textile Tales of the Animal Kingdom

from Wild Adornment: Textile Tales of the Animal Kingdom

from Extending Design: Reflective Encounters – Complementary Project

from Elegant Decay

from Extending Design: Reflective Encounters – Complementary Project

from Extending Design: Reflective Encounters – Complementary Project

from Elegant Decay

from Additional Project

from Additional Project

from Visualisations&Draping

from Visualisations&Draping

from Weave Cities: An Ordered Perspective

from Research

from Drawings

from Visualisations

from Design Exploration and Early Sampling

from Drawings

from Design Development

from Textiles of Time

from Design Development

from Design Development

from Primary Photographs

from TRANSPARENT

from TRANSPARENT

from TRANSPARENT

from TRANSPARENT

from FURNISHING COORDINATION

from Complimentary Project

from Wrapping Papers and Gift Tags

from Complimentary Project

from Complimentary Project

from Material Close Ups

from Additional portfolio project

from Additional portfolio project

from Artefacts of the ordinary and divine

from Additional portfolio project

from Artefacts of the ordinary and divine

from Choreography of 2D to 3D (collection 2 and 3)

from Touchscape-extending project

from Choreography of 2D to 3D (collection 1)

from Choreography of 2D to 3D (collection 1)

from Touchscape-extending project

from Place

from Place

from Place

from Place

from Place

from Studio – Collecting Cobwebs

from Additional Portfolio – Collecting Cobwebs

from Additional Portfolio – Collecting Cobwebs

from Studio – Development