Textiles in Practice, BA (Hons)

The Textiles in Practice course allows you to explore textiles as a flexible and diverse discipline. Taught through core pathways, it offers opportunities to specialize or combine print, weave, knit, embroidery, and mixed media, while promoting interdisciplinary contemporary practices where techniques complement one another. Specialist workshops provide hands-on access to traditional machinery and cutting-edge digital technologies, supported by expert academic and technical staff who are active researchers, professional designers, and artists. Emphasis is placed on developing personal interests that highlight textiles' breadth and potential in modern art and design.Key benefits include project options tailored to specialist interests, extensive traditional and digital workshops, teaching by practising textile practitioners and researchers, collaborative interdisciplinary opportunities across the faculty, and participation in Unit X—an innovative Manchester School of Art unit fostering interdisciplinary study and external-facing projects.