FALL 2022

First-Year Studio
Color Project Line Project
Final Project
Fashion Design
Small-Scale Project
FTD 201
FTD 321 (Draping)
FTD 216 (Fashion Workroom Practices)
Upcycled Sweater
Lemon & Spritz
Textile Design
FTD 376
Jacquard Woven Jacket
FTD 475 (Advanced Weaving)
Perspective Knit Collection
Sublimination Dye on Polyester Warp
Dyed Knitwear Collection
Machine Knit and Hand Dyed Sampling
Metallic Knit Collection
Superficial Love
Master of Textiles
TTM 515
M.S. Textiles
Fashion Development and Product Management
Corset
Threads a Student Texploration
FTM 315
FTM 317: Computer Aided Design For Apparel
Fashion and textile design students spend their first year mastering the fundamentals: color, line and form.
For the color project, students create surface designs based on a photograph of their choosing. The designs, which must center around the interaction between colors, are then translated to a 3D design software called Clo.
Photo Credit: @juliahandley.portfolio
Lainey Volz
Fashion and Textile Design
Photo Credit: @designerlaineyvolz
For the line project, students develop a portfolio of 25 pieces. Five subjects are drawn or painted in five different styles art.
Amelia Boys
Fashion and Textile Design
Photo Credit: @ameliaboys.portfolioLainey Volz
Fashion and Textile Design
For the form project, students create avant garde garments in half scale. Designers had to incorporate 10 different shapes, as well as surface design and texture elements, into their final product.
In the first project for FTD 201, students learn about the intricacies of color perception and reduction, develop color palettes and explore repeats and motifs.
Synthesizing this knowledge, students use Lectra Textile Designer (computer-aided design) CAD software to design a digital print collection.
In FTD 201, students take into consideration sourcing and technical logistics in order to create digital knit print patterns for
In addition to learning print and knit design, students in FTD 201 are also exposed to jacquard weaving. For this project, students complete simulation workshops on technical logistics, the effect of filling color and presentation techniques. Using this information, students design digital weaving patterns.
Mark SaberFashion and Textile Design
Photo Credit: @maisonmarchtohme
For the final project in FTD 321, students must design, make patterns and sew draped garments. To complete this, students apply draping and 3D analysis skills they learned through the course.
Other components of FTD 321 include draping challenges where students are given a picture of a draped garment to recreate during class time. Additionally, Clo 3D software is used to analyze fit differences. Grading is determined by the draping process, pattern making, prototyping and final sewing.
Lilly Barozzini
Fashion and Textile Design
Students learn about the deconstruct and pattern-making process, 3D body scanning and how they are applied in physical garment making.
Caroline Diaz
Fashion and Textile Design
Photo Credit: @carolineemmadiaz
Sweater designed and created from Stoll knit samples.
Bee Mangine
Fashion and Textile Design
Lilly Carl Richards
Fashion and Textile Design
Students take an in-depth exploration of jacquard weaving. Projects in the class challenge students to create a woven fabric collection based on their design inspiration. The final project involves students presenting samples of their work from the semester, including fabric research and development. Students are encouraged to be imaginative with their samples, applying technical and aesthetic skills.
Anna Stuffelbeam
Fashion and Textile Design
Photo Credit: @medicinalthreads
Tristen Sarget
Fashion and Textile Design
Threads: A Student Texploration is a showcase of fashion collections that have been designed and developed in the Senior Studio elective class as part of the Fashion Development and Product Management program in the Wilson College of Textiles. Each fall semester, students from the Fashion Development and Product Management program at NC State University’s Wilson College of Textiles showcase designs that have been developed in Senior Collection Studio.
These senior designers have created, developed, and produced an industry quality collection, emphasizing ideation, theme development, fit and fabrication. Threads is a showcase of talent, creativity, and skill; it is a culmination of techniques learned over the years through various courses in the FDPM concentration.
Explore this year ' s collections with the Threads Lookbook.
Left: Lutian Sun, Illusion | Top Right: Dominic Celemen, Workworn | Bottom
Right: Walker Perry, Reverie
For the final project in FTM 315: Fashion Product Design, fashion d management students produce a unisex piece of apparel based on Students work in groups of two, with one student designated as th coordinator and the other as the pattern and sample maker.
Tools such as Midjourney, an AI-powered art generator, are used t apparel. Students must then design patterns, create prototypes an are presented at the end of the semester.
Students develop CAD e-Portfolios through four mini projects during the semester.
By the end of the semester, students learn the operations of industry design software Gerber for 2D pattern-making and are introduced to 3D simulation.
For the final project, students use Clo 3D software to simulate a design, applying the pattern-making and fitting skills they learned earlier in the course.
Laura Cooper | Fashion and Textile Management | Sunny-SetFashion and Textile Management
Jett Taylor
Fashion and Textile Management
Fashion and Textile Management
Fashion and Textile Management
In their final project, graduate students draft custom outfits from their own design inspiration, develop a design proposal and produce garments for a final critique.