Textile Design

Currently, in the Republic of India, there is a huge demand of textile designers, which in turn has increased the need for such professionals. The textile design industry of the country offers varied job roles to the skilled textile design professionals. Following are some of the popular most designations, which describe the varied job roles that can be offered to a person, who have got a degree in textile design:
Colorists
Design coordinators
Design consultant
Director of design
Entrepreneurs
Embroidery designers
Fabric analyzer
Fashion designer
Fabric resource manager
Furnishing designers
Freelance designers
Garment designer
Home stylists
Printing and dying consultant
Repeat artists
Textile design assistant
Textile design faculty
Textile lab manager
Technical professionals
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TEXTILE DESIGNERS-
A textile designer creates pattern, designs for fabric and also develops fabric. The textile designers also do embellishment of fabrics. They have to select yarn, color for the yarn, and dyes for making new fabrics. Before the start of the process, textile designers also have to source the raw material for the new fabric and have to instruct the weavers, knitters on proper way to make the fabric, they have designed. The fabrics developed by textile designers are used for clothes, carpets and other such creations. Some textile designers also work with finished fabrics. They choose the prints, which are printed on the fabrics. They also keep in mind that the fabric has to be cost effective and suitable under the weather conditions in the country. Textile designers usually work for textile designing companies, textile design firms to develop raw material for fashion designers.
FASHION DESIGNER-
Fashion designers use the fabric developed by the textile designer to create new designs for clothes. Their imagination see a design, they sketch it with colors on the paper and then give shape to their imagination by selecting fabric for the making new designed clothes. The fashion designers these days work on accessories, bags, footwear, kid's clothes, and on whole lot of items used by men, women and kids. A fashion designer has to work hard to source the fabric for the design he or she wants to create the physical samples of the clothes or accessories. They either stitch the pieces together or hire team of pattern makers or seamstress to give shape to the finished sample. And finally, the sample is reproduced by factories for users. Fashion designers work in garment designing and making companies, designing firms and can set up their own business.

Difference between the two terms lies in their implementation and study course. "Textile technology" is more of a technical area wherein you get to study subjects of industrial development, manufacturing tools and strategies, the Science involved behind the textile manufacture and the related concepts in particular. When you study the scientific part of textile birth and emergence, you shall look up for the jobs in the same area ahead in your career probably as for the designation of a project lead or a textile analyst wherein your task shall be monitor quality and quantity of textile production and factors related to them. On the other hand, "textile design" is more broadly an on-field domain that asks you to bring your innovative mind out and carve different types of textiles into distinct forms, designs, colour patterns etc. Since the latter was more of a scientific field, this one is more of artistic field and shall help you fetch the related jobs in your near future demanding you to present you design, color patterns and combination and other relevant ideas to implement on already manufactured cloth.

Hi Aatish!
The major difference is, a textile designer creates the pattern, designs for fabric and also develops fabric. The textile designers also do embellishment of fabrics. They have to select yarn, colour for the yarn, and dyes for making new fabrics. The Fashion designers, on the other hand, use the fabric developed by the textile designer to create new designs for clothes. Their imagination sees a design, they sketch it with colors on the paper and then give shape to their imagination by selecting fabric for the making new designed clothes. Both have a vast career scope. Now that you must have understood the difference between the two, you can take your call according to your area of interest.

That is a very interesting query, because most people tend to concentrate on Fashion Design. What people forget that India has glorious tradition of a textiles which is far, far older than fashion. India has always been a world leader in textiles from almost the time of Harappan Civilisation. Even today, India is very well placed in export markets because of its textile manufacturing and design capacities. Government policies are also very conscious of the importance of Textiles to our exports, GDP as well livelihoods and we have a full-fledged Ministry of Textiles (Minister Smriti Irani) and a textile handicrafts commission as well. So, all this might have helped you understand the importance of textiles in the Indian scenario. If you pursue a course in textile design from a reputed institute (like NID), the career prospects are immense and very satisfying. You can work in the export sector (e. g : Shyam Ahuja, Arvind Mills etc. ). Or the handloom sector, of which India is a treasure trove (e. g Woman Weave Handloom, Maheshwar and Varanasi Silk Weaving Atelier, Varanasi etc.). Depending on your preferences. You can also choose to be a studio based Textile designer or artist if you are more interested in experimental work (e. g. : Ganga Maki Studio, Ashdeen Lilaowala, Nancy Parker, London etc.).