About the Swedish School of Textiles

At the Swedish School of Textiles the creativity of art is combined with the ingenuity of technology. The degree programmes cover the entire fields of textiles, from design through manufacturing, management and technology to handloom weaving. The Swedish School of Textiles is the only one of its kind in Sweden and one among a few institutions of higher education in the world that has, within its facilities, a full-scale textile-manufacturing environment. The school has workshops and laboratories for teaching, research and developmental work. Every student attending the design programmes, has his or her own workstation, and access to studios and computer rooms.

The reserach at the school covers the entire spectra, from the textiles of the Antiquity to the innovative textiles of the future. Research is carried out at the Centre of Textile Research. Within five years the school aims to be one of Europe's leadning research and development centres for industrial design specialising in textile and fashion.

Borås, and its surrounding region, is, and has been for a long time, the centre for manufacturing of clothing and textiles in Sweden and the school maintains en extensive network of contacts with compaines in the region. This gives studnets a unique opprtuniy to meet pople from the industry and from valuable relations.

The Swedish School of Textiles co-operates with several leading universities and colleges world-wide. The school has participated in a series of national and international projects, the most celebrated being the reproduction of textile materials and garments worn by Tutankhamon some 3400 years ago.

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