Sustainable Luxury (Textiles) (BA)

On this BA (Hons) course, you’ll gain a fundamental understanding of the changing landscape of sustainable luxury while developing artisanship skills to design and create luxury textiles.

Exploring, printing, knitting and weaving to felting and stitching techniques, you’ll develop the knowledge and experience to affect change in the global textiles industry.

You’ll learn critical thinking and reflection methods which will inform your design, development and making skills. Envision a world where sustainable luxury textile practices, business strategies, consumer behaviour and marketing communications are reimagined.

Using new technologies, you’ll reinterpret traditional heritage craft practices, and find digital solutions to challenges around sustainable innovation, ethical manufacturing and product augmentation. You'll become a trailblazer, shaping the future of sustainability, luxury, and artisanship.

Facilities, resources and support

Winchester School of Art has a dynamic and supportive learning environment. You'll be taught by professional creatives with extensive academic and industry experience, and receive support from expert textile and digital technicians.

Throughout your degree, you'll have your own dedicated studio workstation with desk and display wall. You’ll also have access to specialist print, knit and weave workshop resources and computer-aided design (CAD) suites.

As a Sustainable Luxury (Textiles) student, you'll also benefit from:

• guest speaker lectures and workshops
• field trips to exhibitions, shows, trade fairs, conferences, artisans and organisations in the UK and abroad
• access to online and in-person events organised by other universities and organisations
• opportunities to enter competitions, earn bursaries and complete internships
• careers, employability and enterprise workshops and advice
• collaborative projects with students from other university programmes
• involvement in projects from luxury brands, textile suppliers, manufacturers and studios
• options to complete a 'year in employment' work placement or study abroad

Start your career in sustainable luxury textiles

You will graduate with the design and making skills to start a career in sustainable luxury textiles across sectors such as fashion, interiors, health and wellbeing. 

You'll also have knowledge and expertise around:

• future trends and industry influences
• marketing communications
• creative problem solving
• teamworking and collaboration
• presentation
• business entrepreneurship

We will support you in starting your own textile business or taking on freelance work. Whether you want to be an artisan, a designer, an entrepreneur or a conservationist, you will play an important role within the sustainable luxury textiles industry.