Knitwear (Design, Heritage and Production) MA

This MA course is aimed at students from a fashion, textiles or fashion technology background. It offers to extend and focus individual design skills. Approaching knitwear design from a creative, theoretical and technical viewpoint – whilst focusing on commercial relevance and product innovation. It’s part of our School of Textiles & Design, which has long supplied leaders in knitwear and knitted textile design. It’s also near to Hawick, one of the most important manufacturing centres for luxury knitwear in the world – supplying to major brands such as Chanel, Prada and Louis Vuitton. Objectives: Critically evaluate traditional and contemporary knitwear design and production practices to inform design output; Develop the appropriate level of technical and creative skill for prototyping and visualising their design ideas; Identify and analyse appropriate methods of design, production and yarn selection for different market levels; Respond innovatively to industrially and commercially relevant demands, restrictions and conventions, through industrial collaboration; Research and apply current developments in technology to their design thinking; Develop concepts and ideas that benefit the knitwear industry and enhance the sustainability of the discipline. The assessment policies for this course incorporate a range of assessment types, with a specific emphasis on formative assessment, self-evaluation, debate and peer critique in all courses. Summative assessment types include coursework, examinations, collaborative and individual problem based projects and a self-directed Masters project with dissertation. Students will also achieve PGDip and PGCert awards in this course.