# Textile Designer

Occupation

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A Textile Designer creates original prints, patterns, and fabric structures for apparel, home goods, or upholstery, using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop alongside specialized CAD software for textiles to render repeats and colorways. They draw on deep textile and fabrication knowledge to ensure designs translate well to production, and closely follow trend forecasting to keep collections commercially relevant. This creative role exists within fashion houses, textile mills, and home furnishings companies, usually held by someone with a design or textile arts background.

## Career ladder

- Often comes from: often an entry point.
- Often leads to: [Design Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/design-manager)

## Similar roles

[Assistant Fashion Designer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/assistant-fashion-designer), [Costume Designer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/costume-designer), [Fashion Designer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/fashion-designer), [Graphic Designer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/graphic-designer), [Industrial Designer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/industrial-designer), [Interior Designer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/interior-designer)

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