The Department of Art Textile and Costume Design trains specialists in three specializations:
- art textiles
The curricula of the department are based on the study of traditional and classical textiles, batik, tapestry.The students acquire mastery skills in the construction of iconographic compositional diagrams, study the theory of weaving techniques.
- artistic costume design
Training of specialists is carried out in three directions: designer’s experimental clothing for various functional purposes (from fashion to conceptual); scenic fashion design of a wide range of its functioning (concerts, theatre, cinema, television, ritual and entertainment activities) and reconstruction of historic costume forms for the needs of museums, exhibition activities and restoration.
- decorative needlework and costume design
The specialization involves the training of artists of decorative and applied art, which is based on the study of compositional techniques, symbols of Ukrainian folk embroidery and ethnic clothing of different regions with their subsequent use in modern creative developments of artistic products.The students master various embroidery techniques that were applied on the territory of Ukraine as well as the theory and practice of cutting.
The department was established in 2000.