Calling all Textile Designers
Get ready to roll up your sleeves and get artsy!
In this one-of-a-kind, hands-on program, students will take a step back to understand how beautiful fabrics and textiles are created in the fashion and textile industries while they study the origins of textiles from near and far, learn their history, the context, and their evolution.
In this interactive class our creative textile designers will change the surfaces of fabrics by exploring various forms of fabric printing, dyeing and painting techniques all with sustainability in mind using locally available dyes. Students will use these techniques to create original textiles with their very own motifs and patterns, explore principles of repetition, pattern, scale and geometry. They will then use the finished textiles to make simple fashion and home accessories like scarves, napkins and pillow coverings.
Budding textile designers will not only leave the class with products made by them with 'original' fabrics but also with a sense of appreciation for textile art forms from around the world.
For students entering grades 4-18
Frequently Asked Questions
+ HOW CAN KIDS BECOME FASHION DESIGNERS?
To become a professional Fashion Designer we recommend students attend a college that offer programs in Fashion and/or related fields. The depth of knowledge you gain from college courses is highly valuable to carve out a successful career in the Fashion space. DesignX Company is one of the first organizations to offer a structured program in Fashion Design for kids and teens (K12). Our age appropriate curricula have been developed by a former Fashion Designer and honed from over a decade of teaching kids in Bay Area, CA. If you have a child that is begining to explore Fashion either for the art element like fashion drawing, enjoys tinkering, making or sewing, loves the beauty, glamor and cat- walking you are in the right place. Your students will have plenty of opportunities to explore a passion and develop some serious skills in designing and making by attending our programs over their school years, even if just over summers. Many of our students got hooked through our summer programs and have gone on to pursue creative fields in college. Enjoy reading about two of our talented and budding fashion designers Amanda and Eva.