A textile designer is a person who gives design to fabric. It can be printed, stitched, colored, embroidered etc. It is designed by textile designers. A textile designer can give clothes the needed design the person aspires. Some of the available textile designs are kalamkari, pochampally ,kantha works ,cut works etc. These designs are given by textile designers’ .In the olden days textile designers were the traditional weavers’ .Now it has come into a profession that all the prints can be mixed and made into another. In some of the cases they can be machine printed at the same time hand worked. Hand worked pieces will be costly due to the man labor involved in it.
A textile designer can mix match colors, prints, can even mix match clothes together .A textile designer has the freedom to do any type of mix matching. The textile can be used either for saris, casuals, pillow covers bed sheets etc . A designer can bring liveliness to the cloth with different types of prints. The course of textile design can be studied from various fashion institutes.
To be a textile designer one must have qualified the 12 std from a recognized university.
Step 1 To become a textile designer one can join for design courses offered by the top institutes of our country.
Step 2 Some of the top institutes that offer bachelor and master courses in textile design are :-
1) NIFT ,Chennai
2) NID ,Delhi
3) NIFT ,Bangalore
4) NIFT ,Patna
5) NIFT ,Hyderabad
A textile designer has multi opportunities because be it apparels, furniture, accessories, upholstery has textiles used .A textile designer can work with leading designers .They can also teach in universities. They can be leading designers of world famous companies.
The salary of a textile designer will range from Rs 12,000-Rs 15,000.After gaining experience the salary will be raised to Rs 20,000 or above. The rest will depend upon your placements available in your universities.
