Textile Design @ Jefferson: A Great Day at MTL for Textile Designers

Thursday, November 9, 2017

A Great Day at MTL for Textile Designers

On Wednesday November 8th a group of Textile Design undergraduate and graduate students visited the high-end textile mill MTL, in Jessup, PA. Joy Alaoui, Director of Design and Danielle Plant, MTL Designer, gave us wonderful tours and created a great, immersive educational experience for us. MTL produces fantastic flat woven jacquard textiles, as well as amazing jacquard velvets. Here are some highlights of the day:

Wonderful jacquard on loom.

Joy and some of the students examine the velvet loom.

A beautiful velvet on loom.

The velvet discussion continues at the loom.

A velvet on loom showing insertion of the wires and the razor to cut the pile.

A creel for a velvet loom.

The back of a velvet loom.

Another velvet jacquard on the loom.

Bobbins for velvet weaving.

Reviewing designs in the extensive archive.

Textile history captured in the archives.

One of many rows of design archives.

A happy, inspired group at the end of a wonderful day!

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The Bachelors of Science in Textile Design and Masters of Science in Textile Design programs provide integration and balance between creative design and technology. In the undergraduate program, students explore weaving, knitting and printing, with the opportunity for advanced course work in the areas of their choice. Students in the graduate program are required to specialize in one area (knit, weave or print), but are encouraged to incorporate the other areas of textile design through their foundation courses, elective or design studio work.

Design research is stressed from the beginning of the programs. Being in the a major city is a great resource as is The Design Center at Jefferson with its textile collection from around the world.