Higher Vocational Training

Pattern Making and Fashion

What do you study in Pattern Making and Fashion?

The Higher Technician in Pattern Making and Fashion qualification teaches you to turn a design into production-ready patterns and grading, and to organise manufacturing in industrial garment, leather, footwear and leather-goods production, with quality, safety and environmental standards.

  • Textile and leather materials and technical specification sheets
  • Pattern making and grading, including CAD/CAM
  • Prototype and sample development
  • Production planning and control
  • Quality management in garment making

Once qualified you can work as a pattern maker, CAD/CAM technical designer, product development technician, quality control technician or production manager, in small, medium and large fashion companies, employed or self-employed.