Textile Design Portfolio

TEXTILE DESIGN STUDENT PORTFOLIO

Alexa Karrenbauer

Table of Contents FTD 104

FTD 374

FTD 476

Avant-Garde Models Circle Skirts Line Project

Kaftan Project Interior Spaces

Knitted Textile Design Studio II

FTD 200

FTD 375

FTD 479

Course Overview T-Shirt Project Upcycled Collections

Woven Samples Final Woven Goods

Senior Textile Design Studio

FTD 201

FTD 376

TT 630

Print Project Knitting Project Weaving Project

Knitted Textile Design Studio

Independent Study

FTD 373

FTD 475

Yarn Design Studio

Woven Textile Design Studio II

FTD 104: AVANT-GARDE MODELS Fashion and textile design students spend their first year mastering the fundamentals: color, line and form.

For their final fall semester project in first-year studio, 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.

Abby Galbo

Bailey Sigmon

Sophie Clark

FTD 104: AVANT-GARDE MODELS

Tessa Dionne

Kate Ergenzinger

Amelia Boys

FTD 104: CIRCLE SKIRTS 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 to simulate how the pattern would look on a draped circle skirt.

Amelia Boys

Amelia Boys

FTD 104: CIRCLE SKIRTS

Jamie Piraino

Jamie Piraino

FTD 104: LINE PROJECT For the line project, students develop a portfolio of 25 pieces. Five subjects are each drawn or painted in five different styles of art.

Amelia Boys

FTD 104: LINE PROJECT

Bailey Sigmon

Harper Wilcox

FTD 200 In this course, students produce multiple textile products such as accessories and garments. They begin each project by gathering inspiration and information on their target customer, and each project concludes with a critique. Students learn how to design clothing and other sewn textile products, gain experience with new studio equipment and also explore digital repeat pattern design. Below are two examples of projects that may change from year to year.

For this project, students were tasked with elevating tote bags. They had to use two different surface manipulation techniques, such as pleating and embroidery.

Beasley and her classmates designed their own print patterns and then incorporated that print fabric into a product of their choice. Beasley designed the lining fabric of her skirt.

Beasley Gordon

Abby Galbo

FTD 200: T-SHIRT PROJECT For this project students are tasked with modifying a tshirt sewing pattern into their own unique design.

These garments are a culmination of what the students have learned thus far in the course, from pattern manipulation techniques to garment construction.

Bella Cybulski

Amelia Boys

FTD 200: UPCYCLED COLLECTIONS First-year fashion and textile design students in studio course FTD 200 are tasked with creating three-look collections with at least 75% upcycled materials. They collaborate in groups of three to make a cohesive collection and learn more about the sustainable design process.

Students typically approach projects by sketching and then selecting a textile, but for this project many students had to overcome the challenge of selecting their textile first.

Amelia Boys, Clara Jelenevsky, Hope Faircloth

FTD 200: UPCYCLED COLLECTIONS

Kate Ergenzinger, Ethan Sadler, Lucy Dewolf

FTD 201: PRINT PROJECT For this project, sophomore fashion and textile design students learn about color perception and reduction, develop color palettes, and explore repeats and motifs. They apply this knowledge to design a digital print collection using computer-aided design (CAD) software. They then develop textile samples and use texture mapping to show how they would be applied as products.

Anna Oliver

Eliza Sweeney

FTD 201: PRINT PROJECT

Lauren Jones Bella Cybulski

FTD 201: KNITTING PROJECT For this assignment, students use trend forecasting websites to select an inspiration of their choice.

They then blend this trend data with their personal aesthetic to create two marketable knit textiles, either for an apparel or furnishing end-use.

Beasley Gordon

Morgan Eastling

Bailey Sigmon

FTD 201: WEAVING PROJECT 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 that are then woven by the college’s Jacquard loom.

Julia McNamara

FTD 201: WEAVING PROJECT

Anna Oliver

FTD 373: YARN DESIGN In this course students learn how to differentiate fibers and their applications. They begin by spinning and designing their own yarn and then using that yarn for apparel and home interior end uses. Students also build a library of skills such as spinning, dyeing, braiding, weaving and knitting.

Students then apply their favorite techniques they learned in this class to the interior spaces they design in FTD 374.

FTD 373: YARN DESIGN

FTD 374: KAFTAN PROJECT Second-year textile design students create surface designs by hand and through software. Their designs are then printed on silk habotai and sewn into kaftans.

Beasley Gordon

Brenna Buzzacco

Cadee Gafford

Mary Mac Lyons

FTD 374: KAFTAN PROJECT Tessa Dionne

Julia McNamara

Hollis Faulkner

FTD 374: FINAL PROJECT Utilizing the techniques learned in FTD 373, students in groups of four collaborate to design all aspects of a living space. From furniture and pillows to wallpaper and lampshades, students must consider every detail to fulfill the needs of their selected target market.

Kate Ergenzinger, Eliza Sweeney, Anna Oliver, Morgan Eastling

FTD 374: FINAL PROJECT Julia McNamara, Hollis Faulkner, Beasley Gordon

FTD 375: WOVEN SAMPLES In this class, textile design students learn about color, texture and structure in woven fabrics and weave three sets of samples as well as a final project. They also begin to learn about computer-integrated design for woven products.

Julia McNamara

Lilly Carl Richards

Grace Avery

Morgan Eastling

FTD 375: WOVEN FINALS

Beasley Gordon Mary Mac Lyons

FTD 375: WOVEN FINALS

Tessa Dionne

Alexa Karrenbauer

FTD 376: KNITTED TEXTILE DESIGN STUDIO

Lilly Carl Richards

FTD 475: WOVEN TEXTILE DESIGN STUDIO II This course focuses on Jacquard design for diverse end uses, from art fabrics to unique specialty products. Students will explore advanced weaving structures, color and textural effects. They design wovens through electronic production methods and expand their knowledge of computer-integrated design systems and exposure to industrial processes.

Jaymie Googins

Alaina Withers

FTD 475: WOVEN TEXTILE DESIGN STUDIO II

Andrea Hunnicutt

Chloe Belton

FTD 476: KNITTED TEXTILE DESIGN STUDIO II In this course students further develop their knit design capabilities by learning about different knit structures and their product applications. Students create knit products through hand and machine production methods, including advanced methods of utilizing computer-integrated design system for both technical structures of knits and designing of garments.

Leeman Smith

Alexa Karrenbauer

FTD 476: KNITTED TEXTILE DESIGN STUDIO II

Brianne Haas

FTD 479: SENIOR TEXILE DESIGN STUDIO During the second semester of their senior year, students create a living space as a culmination of all they have learned over the past four years. Students get the opportunity to explore new techniques and continue to master the ones they have learned in previous years to create a immersive rooms that are presented to the public at the Emerging Designers Showcase.

Cadee Gafford

FTD 479: SENIOR TEXILE DESIGN STUDIO

Lilly Carl Richards

FTD 479: SENIOR TEXILE DESIGN STUDIO

Chase Woodson

SENIOR TEXILE DESIGN STUDIO

Mary Mac Lyons

FTD 479: SENIOR TEXILE DESIGN STUDIO

Chloe Belton

TT 630: INDEPENDENT STUDY Textile design student Alaina Withers created a clothing collection with original textiles that she also designed. She presented the line at the Wilson College’s Threads fashion show.

TT 630: WEAVING INDEPENDENT STUDY Students further explored hand weaving techniques.

Lilly Carl Richards

Chase Woodson