Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a textile designer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a textile designer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Textile designers conceptualise textile products considering visual communication and functional performance.

Also known as textile artist, print designer, textiles designer, fabric designer, design technology technician, pattern design, textile CAD designer, design and technology technician, textile design expert, canvas pattern designer, textile design specialist, textile and graphic artist.

Professionals 27 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: textile colourist, 80%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
textile colourist 80% covered textile product developer 61% covered printing textile technician 53% covered textile chemical quality tech… 50% covered textile sourcing merchandiser 48% covered textile designer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from textile designer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a textile designer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A textile designer needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • design weft knitted fabrics communication, collaboration and creativity
  • design woven fabrics communication, collaboration and creativity
  • design yarns communication, collaboration and creativity
  • textile marketing techniques business, administration and law
  • design warp knit fabrics communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create mood boards communication, collaboration and creativity
  • keep up to date on costume design information skills
  • draw sketches to develop textile articles communication, collaboration and creativity
  • portfolio management in textile manufacturing engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • draw sketches to develop textile articles using softwares working with computers
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a textile designer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Textile designer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a textile designer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.