What is the difference between textile designing and fashion designing?
Asked by Suchitra sahal
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A fashion designer usually imagines the garment and a textile designer imagines the fabric to be used.
A textile designer creates designs, patterns for fabric and develops fabric structures. The end product of a textile designer is fabric and embellishment of fabrics. Textile designers select yarns, yarn colours and dyes to make new fabric textures, hand feel and finished look. Textile designers do raw material sourcing to production follow up for new development. They give instructions to weavers, knitters how to make the fabric they have designed.
On the other hand, a fashion designer creates designs and patterns for clothing. Fashio...more -
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Nalini Ranjan Panday An engineering graduate keen to learn new things. | Contributor-Level 9
2 years agoFashion designing and textile Designing are the two most famous and most sought-after courses by most students. These courses open countless options and opportunities for the candidates. Textile designing mainly focuses on making woven, printed, or knitted patterns for garments or home decor, whereas fashion designing caters more to creating clothes, accessories, and lifestyles. The fashion designing course is infinite and offers in-depth knowledge about all the aspects of the fashion industry. Whereas, the textile designing course offers knowledge on the design of textiles, garments, and apparel. However, to study both textile and fas...more -
Hi,
Textile designing and fashion designing are very different from each other.textile designing is all about textiles. In textile designing, you will learn about the possibilities of textile. You will learn how textile is used for different purposes and in different industries, but textile designing is more about home furnishing products. Generally, textile designers work as a print designer or graphic designer, but a small part of fashion designing will also be taught in textile designing while fashion designing is more about apparels, you will learn more about designing garments. Fashion designing includes more of pattern making, dr...more -
A fashion designer usually imagines the garment and a textile designer imagines the fabric to be used. A textile designer creates designs, patterns for fabric and develops fabric structures. The end product of a textile designer is fabric and embellishment of fabrics. Textile designers select yarns, yarn colours and dyes to make new fabric textures, hand feel and finished look. Textile designers do raw material sourcing to production follow up for new development. They give instructions to weavers, knitters how to make the fabric they have designed. On the other hand, a fashion designer creates designs and patterns for clothing. Fashio...more
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