Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design
Our Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design department has an excellent reputation for its range of courses, links with industry and enviable resources.
We have exceptional teaching teams with a breadth of experience both in the design and academia, who along with our expert technical teams are dedicated to ensuring students receive an engaging and intellectually challenging learning experience within an international context. Specialist lecturers contribute to the curriculum through lectures and seminars offering you a cutting edge view of the fashion and textile industries.
From the specialist equipment in our dedicated facilities to our impressive links to an international network of fashion and textiles organisations and businesses, we equip our students with the skills needed to launch their career in industry, through self-employment or developing academic research and PhD study.
Our Subject Areas
Latest News
New isolation gowns to help protect nurses treating COVID-19
Mon 06 Dec 2021
Gowns which protect nurses from viruses like COVID-19 could be safer, more comfortable and sustainable thanks to research by Nottingham Trent University.
NTU Student wins DFA Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award
Wed 17 Nov 2021
NTU Fashion alumna bags prize at Fashanne Awards
Tue 21 Sep 2021
NTU fashion students collaborate with WildBrain’s Teletubbies in competitive design exercise to create innovative apparel collection designs
Tue 31 Aug 2021
Fashion collection made entirely from donated fabrics
Mon 26 Jul 2021
Our Research Groups and Centres
Advanced Textiles Research Group
Advanced Textiles Research Group
A thriving research group and a leading institution for advanced textiles research with a global reputation for designing electronically active wearable technology.
Clothing Sustainability Research Group
Sustainable Clothing is a multidisciplinary research group that focuses on creating knowledge that will support a more sustainable future for clothing design, consumption and culture.
Global Cultures of Textiles and Dress
Global Cultures of Textiles and Dress
The GCTD Group aims to promote research in textiles and dress that addresses a wide range of critical and practice-based themes. Focusing on the significance and meaning of textiles and dress across cultures and time, and contextualising them as potent aspects of material and visual culture.
Heritage
Heritage
The Fashion and Textile Heritage research group has built a strong team of experts in lace history and contemporary creative practice. We deliver innovative cross-disciplinary research, which informs design education and teaching locally, nationally and internationally. Our aim is to deepen an understanding of the importance of the lace industry in forming local and regional identities, and to inspire innovative creative practices for future economic and cultural benefits.
We're ranked 16th in the UK for Fashion and Textiles. (Guardian University Guide 2021)
93% of BA (Hons) Textile Design students would recommend studying at NTU to others. (National Student Survey 2021)
Our BA (Hons) Textile Design course is accredited by the Chartered Society of Designers.
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