Textiles MA and MFA

Edinburgh Collegs of Art's Textile department is award-winning with a strong national and international reputation.

The department draws strength not only from its wide-ranging and comprehensive creative and technical inputs, but from the work of the sister departments such as Performance Costume, Fashion, Product and Interior Design, which call upon textiles in their own work. This presents textile students with challenges to meet and problems to solve, and also offers them a showcase for their ideas and a range of collaborative possibilities. Innovative and experimental approaches are encouraged and Industrial work placements, organised by staff and students in consultation with each other, further extend the depth and experience offered by postgraduate studies.

The postgraduate programme offers an extended opportunity to study and explore a particular aspect of textile design in depth. Appropriate areas might range over the history of textile design or the impact of new technology on the design and manufacture of textiles. Alternatively, they might involve specialist fields of textile design such as furnishing or fashion, where the College's sister departments will provide an invaluable resource.

While a written dissertation forms part of the assessment process, these programmes are designed as a means of developing and extending creative practice. Students who wish to concentrate on theory will find the programmes offered by the Centre for Visual & Cultural Studies more appropriate; Contemporary Art Theory, Visual Culture and Visual and Material Culture.

At Edinburgh College of Art we have an international body of postgraduate students coming from different cultural traditions to work in a broad range of fashion and textile media within an integrated framework.

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