Fibers

Fibers professionals combine historic textile processes and traditions with emerging technologies and ideas from many disciplines. They engage in interdisciplinary, experimental and sustainable approaches to design, craft and art-making.

  • Weaving
    • Stationery and gift wrap designer
    • Colorist
    • Display designer
    • Embroiderer
    • Fine artist
    • Wallpaper designer
  • White House Ornaments
    • Knitwear designer
    • Rug designer
    • Studio production artist
    • Textile designer for home furnishings
    • Surface designer
  • Weaving
    • Textile designer for apparel
    • Textile designer for commercial furnishings
    • Textile museum curator
    • Textile stylist
    • Upholstery designer


Annually, more than 500 national and international companies and organizations recruit SCAD students and alumni. Over the past four years, an average of 8 out of 10 SCAD alumni responding to a survey were employed in their fields or had been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation.


Employers of SCAD alumni include:

White House Ornaments
  • Abercrombie & Fitch
  • American Rug Craftsmen
  • Anthropologie
  • Cascade Fibers Company
  • Cone Jacquards
  • Dillard's Inc.
  • Elite Textiles
  • Guilford Mills
  • Hamrick's Inc.
  • IKEA
  • Lilly Pulitzer
  • Liz Claiborne Inc.
  • Lowe's
  • Mohawk Home
  • ScalamandrĂ©
  • Shaw Industries Inc.
  • Springs Industries Inc.
  • Target
  • Valdese Weavers Inc.

Events
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Explore the Inspiring Home of the SCAD Fibers Department
Explore the Inspiring Home of the SCAD Fibers Department Feb 17, 2012
 
SCAD Day - Savannah
SCAD Day - Savannah Feb 18, 2012
 
Recognition
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  • "500 Felt Objects" features Schlesinger work
  • Martha Stewart Living hires Andrea Yu
  • Professors co-author design history article