Career in Textile Designing
I think Textile Designing is a great Career option. For me understanding Why I want to choose a Career in Textile Designing is phenomenally more important than figuring out How to get into Textile Designing. While I was searching for reliable information about a Career in Textile Designing, I came across this amazing page: https://www.lifepage.in/career/20171208-0002/Arts/Fashion Designing/Career-in-Textile-Designing/english
Simona Rawat’s professional point of view!
Simona Rawat invested 1 year & 10 months in Textile Designing. Simona Rawat has worked in Textile Designing as Apparel &Textile Designer in Feral Art Studio. In Simona Rawat’s own words, this is how Simona Rawat got into Textile Designing: “After my Bachelors degree from NIFT, Gujarat, I worked in an export house, The Pinnacle Clothing in Noida as a textile and apparel designer. I have been running my venture – Feral Arts Studio that focuses on eco-friendly prints and garments.”
Career Video on Textile Designing
In a video, Simona Rawat has talked about various aspects of a Career in Textile Designing. Simona Rawat started by explaining Textile Designing as: “Textile design is essentially the process of creating designs for woven, knitted or printed fabrics or surface ornamented fabrics. Textile designers are involved with the production of these designs, which are used, sometimes repetitively, in clothing and interior decor items. The field encompasses the actual pattern making while supervising the production process. In other words, textile design is a process from the raw material into finished product.” It was an amazing video with great information.
I found the video unique because it talked about Education in terms of things which can be learnt from books, to excel at a Career in Textile Designing and not as a list of Qualifications, which one needs to get into Textile Designing. Simona Rawat touches upon these in the Education section of the Video:
Fabric
Pattern Making
Garment Construction
Silhouettes
Upcoming Trends
Color Theory
This Career demands specific Skills which only an experienced professional can lay out.
Simona Rawat then explains why these Skills are essential for a Career in Textile Designing:
Experimentative
Creativity
Environment Friendly
Marketing
Price Management
Convincing Powers
Hard Work
There are great positives of this Career.
Simona Rawat believes that the following are some of the Positives of a Career in Textile Designing:
Work Satisfaction
Creating Social Awareness
Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Constant Innovation
Future Potential
Challenges define a Career as much as the Positives of the same.
And, Simona Rawat believes that one needs to prepare for following Challenges of a Career in Textile Designing:
Lack of Awareness
Lack of Appreciation for Art
Capital
Procuring Fabric
Price Fluctuations
In the final section of the video Simona Rawat talks about How a day goes in a Career in Textile Designing. This video is by far the best video on a Career in Textile Designing, that I have ever come across. To see the full Talk, one needs to install the LifePage Career Talks App. Here is a direct deep link of the Video: https://lifepage.app.link/20171208-0002
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