Textile designing is a creative field that includes fashion design, carpet manufacturing and any other cloth-related field. Clothing, carpets, drapes, towels, and rugs are all functional products resulting from textile design. Within the fashion industry, textile designers have the ability to inspire collections, trends, and styles.

Textile designers carry a creative vision of what a finished textile will look like with a deep understanding of the technical aspects of production and the properties of fiber, yarn, and dyes.

The history of textile design goes back thousands of years. Because of the perishability of textiles, early examples of textile design are rare. However, some of the oldest known examples of textiles found were discovered in the form of nets and basketry and date from Neolithic cultures in 5000 BCE. When trade networks formed in European countries, silk, wool, cotton, and flax fiber textiles became valuable commodities. Many early cultures including Egyptian, Chinese, African, and Peruvian practiced early weaving techniques. One of the oldest examples of textile design was found from an ancient Siberian tomb in 1947. The tomb was said to be that of a prince's and is aged back from 464 ABD; making the tomb and all of its contents over 2500 years old. The rug, known as the Pazyryk rug, was preserved in ice all those years and is detailed with elaborate deer and men riding on horseback. The designs are similar to present day Anatolian and Persian rugs that apply the directly proportional Ghiordes knot in the weaving. The rug is currently displayed at the Hermitage Museum located in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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