Discover our courses
Beginners, improvers and professionals are all welcome to attend a short course where you'll meet other adult learners who share your interests to achieve personal and professional goals.
Courses run during evenings and weekends as well as intensive, week long courses during the summer.
If you'd like to discuss which course is right for you or have additional questions we'd love to help! You can email us or give us a call on +44 (0)115 848 2813.
CAD for Textile and Fashion Print Design
Experiment with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to enhance your creativity and technical skills to create innovative digital textile designs and patterns on this practical, Mac based course.
CLO3D for Digital Fashion Design
This course is a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of CLO3D, a powerful 3D garment design and visualisation software. You will learn the key concepts and techniques needed to create realistic 3D garments, simulate fabric properties, and visualise your designs in a virtual environment.
Corset Making for Fashion and Costume
This corset making for fashion and costume practical course is for anyone who has a personal or professional interest in fashion, vintage dressmaking or costume who would like to develop the knowledge and skills needed to produce their own made-to-measure corsets.
Domestic Machine Knitting for Beginners
Our Domestic Machine Knitting for Beginners course offers intensive instruction on domestic knitting machines and will introduce you to the fundamentals of using kitting equipment to produce creative work — perfect for beginners or those wanting a refresher!
Domestic Machine Knitting for Improvers
Build on your knitting skills in this improvers course! Design, shape, and create a custom sweater using expert machine techniques, ribbing, and garment assembly.
Fashion Design and Draping
This course is ideal for anyone who wants to enhance existing fashion skills and take their portfolio to a more professional level. You’ll complete several practical design projects using draping on a mannequin to explore fabric manipulation techniques.
Fashion Design for Beginners
Learn how to create innovative fashion concepts, taking your designs from an initial idea and sketch to a coherent collection. You'll explore the processes involved in designing clothes for yourself or for others.
Fashion Design using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
By the end of this course you’ll have the practical skills required for creating accurate and high-quality textile and fashion designs using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. You’ll leave with an overview of Adobe software packages and understand how you can implement the software in the future.
Fashion Knitwear Summer School
This practical course combines the two interconnected disciplines of fashion and textiles through the medium of knitted fabric design. By the end of three weeks, you’ll have a portfolio of work and a finished, accomplished and wearable piece of knitted fashion.
Fashion Product Technology
This unique course has been co-designed between NTU and fashion industry professionals. It reflects the need for garment engineers and textile engineers to have up-to-date knowledge of contemporary themes in the industry, as well as the skills to handle samples, understand materials and processes, and evaluate production and management processes. It is aimed at anyone considering a new career or career progression within fashion product technology.
Footwear Design and Construction
On this practical course you’ll learn the basics of design and construction techniques to create flat sandals, high heeled open toe mules or heeled slingback sandals. You’ll be introduced to the technical aspects of footwear construction and its components, from the pattern cutting process to creating a finished pair of shoes with the perfect fit. This course is for anyone who has a personal or professional interest in footwear who would like to develop the knowledge and skills needed to produce their own made-to-measure shoes.
Global Fashion Branding and Design
Discover how to design a fashion collection, build a brand identity, and explore UK and global fashion markets through hands-on projects and industry insight.
Glove Making with Leather
Using creative teaching techniques and clear, step-by-step guidance you’ll unravel the process of glove making with leather, a skill that’s traditionally thought of as difficult to master. With only eight places offered, this course provides you with one-to-one attention to ensure you leave with the skills and knowledge to continue glove making as part of your profession or purely personal enjoyment.
Hand Weaving Summer School
Master the basics of hand weaving, design with vibrant yarns, and craft your own fabric on state-of-the-art looms. Perfect for beginners and creative refreshers alike!
Pattern Cutting and Drafting for Womenswear
On this practical course you'll be introduced to the skill of creating your own block and patterns from scratch, as well as developing skills in toiling and fitting.
Sewing Techniques: Methods for Professional Finishing
Would you like to take your sewing to the next level? Perhaps you’ve already made a few dresses and even completed some trickier projects and now you’re ready to develop your basic machine sewing skills to professional standard. Come and spend five days seriously improving your sewing techniques on this intensive, practical course based in our professional fashion studios.
Sewing and Tailoring Workshop
If you're already skilled in using a sewing machine and are used to working with commercial patterns, this is your chance to take your skills to the next level and beyond. On this practical course you’ll develop your manufacturing skills to produce a tailored jacket (toile) from scratch, using industry-standard methods, techniques and equipment.
Tutu Making for Costume
This is an exciting course designed for anyone who has an interest in theatre costume or ballet. It'll teach you how to make a professional tutu base and bodice for classical ballet dancers or ballet students. With a limit of seven people you'll have the one-to-one attention you need to ensure you leave with the skills to