Textiles and Apparel Design
Creative...original...innovative..imaginative.
Textile and Apparel Design is a rewarding profession relating physical properties of textiles to the human need for fashionable and functional clothing and home accessories. This option combines the art of design, the science of chemistry and the perspective of history in a rich, challenging learning environment that prepares individuals for dynamic careers at the creative forefront of the textile industry. The department's main objective is to prepare students for successful careers in the global textile and apparel industries.
Expectations | Curriculum | Internships | Study Abroad
Below you will find two short videos presenting highlights from the 2006 biennial TCD Runway Show, "Unveiled." The show, which took place in April 2006, presented the design work of twenty-four CEHS textile & apparel students.
The work was generated by Junior and Senior majors in the department's design program.. The garments were developed in response to an experimental design class led by Dr. Barbara Trout, in which students used unconventional materials and searched for new responses to body shape and garment structure.
Students were challenged to develop garments that examined the possibilities of segmentation and assemblage relative to the body. Students designed garments for a variety of markets including children's wear, denims, evening wear and outer wear. In working toward their show, students tracked industry trends and innovations, and then responded to these apparel design currents in the works that they created.
Student Organization
Montage is a student organization for all Textiles,Clothing and Design majors. Activities at the monthly meetings include guest speakers, planning for fashion shows and gallery exhibits, and fundraising. And, of course, social events that encourage close relationships between design, merchandising, and textile science majors.
For more information about Montage, you can contact Dr. Harriet McLeod at (402) 472-6303 or at:
WHAT'S IN
IT FOR YOU
With a degree in Textiles, Clothing and Design, careers are possible in:
• Apparel Designer
• Product Designer
• Training Specialist
• Entrepreneur
• CAD Professional
• Costume Designer
• Fiber Artist
• Textile Designer
• Technical Sales
UNL POINTS OF DIFFERENCE
• Nationally recognized, award winning program
• Student honors and awards at juried design competitions
• Nationally and internationally recognized faculty scholars in textile
and apparel design, merchandising and textile science
• Hands-on experiences through studio courses, study tours, community service
and internships with cooperating retailers, manufacturers and designers throughout
the United States and abroad.
Resources
The department includes fully equipped design and apparel studios,
and digital studios equipped with cutting edge CAD® software
including Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, Lectra®,
JacqCAD® and Sophis® programs. It houses an extensive
historic textile and apparel study collection, the International
Quilt Study Center, and the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery,
and fully equipped textile science labs.
Designers and artists with national and international reputations in the textile and apparel fields are frequent subjects ofinvitational exhibitions in the gallery, and regularly conduct workshops or present lectures for students. These have included Jane Sauer, Tim Harding, Ana Lisa Headstrom, Stephen Stipleman, Radka Donnell, Chunghie Lee, Akemi Cohn and Ji Hee Kim. Students participate in national and local design competitions, and participate in the biennial student fashion performance.
FACILITIES
The Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design is located in the Home Economics
Building on East Campus. This facility contains:
• Student advising center
• Computer labs
• Fully-equipped design studios
• Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery
• International Quilt Study Center
• Historic textile, ethnic dress and costume collection
• Computer-aided design lab (Lectra®)
