Textile design
This two-year master’s programme in textile design at NABA aims to develop professionals who can manage the creative processes associated with textile design for fashion. From woven to knitted fabrics, including innovation, sustainability and design thinking.
The programme, which has strong links with the Italian production sector, offers theoretical, technical and experimental lessons applied to projects and gives students in-depth knowledge of textile discipline and its expression in the fashion and art industry.
Focus
- Evaluate the fashion phenomenon as a visual language, with self-awareness of skills and style, interpret and translate ideas into high-quality projects.
- Using complex methods to demonstrate their ability to create well-formulated solutions for many different projects, from research and analysis to the design process and its representation and communication, while demonstrating that they are familiar with a wide range of applications, knowledge and skills.
- Learn an integrated approach to the textile world, rooted in the Italian design culture, and explore the values and needs of a new, global humanity and its sustainable relationship to nature and the environment.
Career opportunities: textile designer, designer of knitted materials, textile developer, brand manager, creative manager, merchandiser, trend scout, costume designer, designer of sustainable textiles, fiber and textile artist.



