Textile Designer For Home Furnishing Export House

Responsible for understanding & developing print designs, surface techniques & weaving patterns as per buyer instructions.

Duties incude:

-Interpreting buyer briefs : candidates should have the designs sense to understand and interpret buyer mood boards/themes.

-Research & analysis : candidates should have the ability to scan through textile trend forecasting websites, catalogues & competitor websites to analyse and document trends as per buyer mood boards/themes.

-Design development : candidates should have the ability to select suitable motifs & scale, make design layouts, set design repeats, work on colour ways and transfer design to CAD. Once files are ready, candidates should be able to do colour separations in CAD and handover final files to suppliers.

-Special emphasis : candidates expertise in developing designs for printing processes like hand screen, rotary, block, digital printing, making copy right changes to design, developing surface design pattern for embroidery and creating weave patterns on CAD.

-Print follow up & solving technical issues : candidates should be able to follow up with suppliers and solve all technical issues.

-Strike off approvals : candidates should be competent enough to approve design/colour strike offs before proceeding in bulk.

-Handover approved design/samples : candidates should have the ability to compile, record and handover approved designs/samples to merchandising/production.

Candidates will be reporting to Head of Design. They will also be required to interact with various departments such as merchandising & production.