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NMT Fashion and Textile Design

North Metropolitan TAFE
Fashion & Textile Design Department

RTO code: 52786

The fashion and textile industry values initiative, unique design interpretations, flexibility and lateral thinking, as well as skills in illustration, digital design, marketing and small business management. NMT's fashion program is the start of your pathway into a new and challenging career. NMT'S fashion and textile design courses are built around the recognition of current and future trends in

fashion, with an emphasis on good quality design and higher level skills. During your studies you will gain extensive knowledge in researching ideas, marketing, figure and design drawing, design pattern making, designing and printing textiles, and garment design and construction. You’ll have the unique opportunity to work in facilities dedicated to the creative arts and design, developing hands-on skills and new ideas in specialist studios and workshops. Fashion industry designers supplement the experience of lecturers in the fashion and design program at NMT, and enable students to engage in live projects, competitions and work experience within industry. Competition in the fashion and textile industry is intense and designers need to be guided by lecturers who have direct experience in the fashion world, are ahead of the trends, ready to adapt to changing market demands, new technologies and career opportunities. Designers work in a variety of environments such as fashion houses, design studios or retail fashion outlets. Some designers operate small or micro- businesses and are responsible for every aspect from the design concept to textile production, presentation and marketing of completed garments and accessories.

12/06/2026

✨Make some magic happen using local botanicals with our
NATURAL DYEING & ECO PRINTING WORKSHOP 🍃🍁🥀
📆 Tuesdays 5.30pm - 8.00pm
Due to commence August 4th
Perth Campus (2.5hrs over 6 weeks)

All Natural Dyeing and Printing Workshop
Discover the alchemy of dyeing your very own naturally dyed fabric in this fun and relaxing Perth NMTAFE - RTO Code: 52786 workshop.

Join textile artist, Annette Wiguna Annette Wiguna | Visual & Annette Wiguna | Visual & Textile Artistilled with learning basic natural dye techniques. Using local bush plants from Western Australia and simple ingredients from your pantry, you will watch your fabrics emerge into stunning natural colour hues!

During the workshop, which is perfect for beginners, you will learn different methods to create patterns and colour variations from the same dye colour bath. This is a super fun, informative and hands-on experience using NM TAFE’s large textiles space in Perth.

Natural Dyeing uses natural pigments, tannins and acids present in leaves, by combining them with natural mordant, moisture and heat on fabric or paper. This workshop will focus on the boiling and bundling techniques where the natural colours from organic sources are transferred onto a paper surface.

Learn basic techniques covering:
* Natural fabrics and papers,
*Suitable organic dye sources
* Equipment and materials required
* Use of natural mordants and homemade soy milk binder
* Bundling and tying – using a variety of cylindrical and flat surfaces
* Techniques – shibori/resist dyeing and colour transfer with blankets
* Factors that influence a print (uncontrollable and controllable)
* Practical skill

⤴️ Link in bio or visit https://www.northmetrotafe.wa.edu.au/courses/natural-dyeing-and-printing-workshop

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11/06/2026

WHAT LIES BENEATH.Fundraiser Fashion Show!
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Featuring works from Diploma and Advanced Diploma students.

A runway show by the North Metropolitan TAFE Fashion Department 𝐍𝐌𝐓𝐀𝐅𝐄 𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 at the Gallery Central Gallery Central

📆 25.06.26
⏱️ 18:00
📍 Gallery Central, 12 Aberdeen Street, Perth

🎟️ TICKETS $22.50 AVAILABLE VIA LINK IN BIO SOON!

💃🏻 Model: sara umegaki koh

ON THE RUNWAY
Original garments by the Diploma and Advanced Diploma students, featuring innovative garment design and fabric surfaces.

🎵MUSIC BY Predrag Delibasic

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We wish to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land we are meeting on, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is an 18+ event. Photo ID is required upon entry, minors must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Accessible seating available on request.
ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT GO TOWARDS THE NORTH METROPOLITAN TAFE GRADUATE FASHION SHOW

10/06/2026

🥶🧶🧦 This winter is the perfect time to start machine knitting with our
MACHINE KNITTING TECHNIQUES SKILLSET
📆 Due to commence Tuesday 21st July 5.30pm - 8.00pm

Check link in bio and get knitting! ⤴️

Discover the features and versatility of a knitting machine
You’ll gain the skills needed to respond to the demand for diverse and bespoke textile applications in the local fashion industry and community of makers.

Machine knitting is a skill that is widely used in the international fashion industry. In this course, you’ll be introduced to the functionality and features of knitting machines, learning how to set them up, and how to cast on and off. By the time you finish, you’ll have completed a range of knitted samples using techniques such as Fairisle, tuck and slip stitch, lace holes, ladders, colour changing and fringing.

This course is open to current Fashion and Textile Design students, fashion school graduates, textile designers and local community members.

22/05/2026

Join the NMT Fashion Department next Tuesday 26th May for
National Sorry Day 🔴🟡⚫️ 🟢🔵⚪️⚫️

9.30am - 2.30pm

Led by , we will spend time together to acknowledge the stolen generation, learn some traditional weaving techniques and create a communal installation.

Bring a plate to share so we can connect through food culture and learning.

Boorda wan
See you there

05/05/2026

🌟 JOIN US for our North Metropolitan TAFE Creative Industries Open Day and see what options are available to kick-start your career!

🕓 Time 4:00pm - 6:00pm
📆 Date 6 May 2026
📍Location Pink Sea Container, 12 Aberdeen Street, Perth
RSVP No tickets required

Applications for Semester 2, 2026 open on 30 April, making this the perfect opportunity to explore your options at our Open Day on 6 May.

The event will feature a mini Creative Industries Expo in the foyer, an exhibition in Gallery Central, and guided campus tours led by our lecturers departing at regular intervals.
You’ll have the flexibility to explore the areas that interest you most, including:

Animation and Game Art
Fashion and Textile Design
Film and Television
Printing and Graphic Arts
Signs and Graphics
Graphic Design
Interior Design
Jewellery
Photography
Product Design
Visual Arts
Building Design and Drafting
Special Make-Up & SFX
BOOM Radio (Information booth)
Music and Sound (Information booth)

The Jobs and Skills Centre career advisors will also be on hand to assist with any application questions you might have.

25/04/2026

A sneak peek into our Advanced Diploma students’ initial collection concepts! ⭐️

We are all very excited to see what comes next from this year’s talented group of designers.

Stay tuned.

19/04/2026

👩🏻‍🎓 Designer: BONGI WONG
🎎 Artefact: Tea set trio 1890-1891
🌟 MEMENTO Exhibition 📆 April 9-24 📍Perth Town Hall

This bone china trio, comprising cup, saucer and plate, is part of a larger tea set. It was produced at the Foley Pottery in England. Like a number of earlier items to come into History West’s collection, its story was not recorded, so we can only imagine the afternoon tea parties it must have graced.

Narrative:
“Late in the 17th century, when England was stitching itself into the grain of the world, a Foley tea set trio was created in the rise of Orientalism and midday of an empire. With its porcelain as delicate as the flower petals found in its design, it first graced the shelves of a merchant’s wife. Kept for safe keeping in a walnut cabinet it led a content and quiet life, brought into the world only when the most esteemed guests paid a visit. Over time the trio passed through hands softened by privilege and hardened by war, gracing one owner to the next with its replicated visage.

By the mid-nineteenth century, it found itself tucked into the trunk of a young Englishwoman, who boarded a ship bound for the Australian colonies. The trio was packed not in quaint sentiment, but rather through a stubbornness to preserve the prior identity and self-autonomy of the young woman, who felt it was the one thing in her turbulent journey that was truly hers. Through the rough storms and stale, airless weeks of life on the ship, she would trace in golden trim that glistened akin to the gold in the sun-struck land she spent her restless days dreaming of…”

(See photo to read more)

19/04/2026

👩🏻‍🎓 Designer: KARA WARNER
🎎 Artefact: Fly whisk Mid 1800s
🌟 MEMENTO Exhibition 📆 April 9-24 📍Perth Town Hall

Horse-hair fly whisk with turned wooden handle. Whilst fly whisks had practical uses, they could also be ceremonial objects or signify rank and status. This one belonged to Sir Archibald Burt, who in 1861 was appointed the first Chief Justice of WA, a role he held for 16 years before returning to the West Indies, where he had been born.

Narrative:
“She arrived in Broome with the taste of salt already in her mouth, though she had not yet seen the sea. It came from fear, from the way her body had braced itself since the official letter arrived, explaining that her husband had been recruited, a polite word that disguised how little choice he had. Money had dried up back home, they said, and opportunity waited in the north of Western Australia, glittering like pearl shell beneath dangerous water.

They were housed in a narrow room in the Japanese quarter, its walls thin, the air heavy with sweat and kerosene. Segregation was never spoken aloud, only enforced through fences, glances, and rules that settled into daily life like dust. She learned where she could walk, where she should not linger, when her eyes must lower. At night, she lay awake listening to coughing and laughter from other rooms, all of them filled with women like her-wives of men who dove.

Her husband laughed when they told him why he’d been chosen.

‘Look at me,’ he said, flexing his arms. ‘Nothing but bone and stubbornness.’

She laughed too. If she didn’t, the image would destroy her: his body sinking into green-black water, rope taut, lungs burning, the sea pressing in like a giant hand. They valued his strength, his brute stature, as the overseer called it, but not his gentleness, not the way he bowed to her each morning. Laughter made terror manageable…”

(See photo to read more)

18/12/2025

Our Diploma of Fashion, Apparel and Textiles students also showcased their beautiful garments at our Council House exhibition this year!

The Diploma level extends on the skills learnt in the Certificate IV, where students refine their design voice through the experimentation of textile processes including knitwear, digital design and complex garment development. The photographs in this exhibition showcase the Mini Brand Project, where students were required to design a three-look collection inspired by their own concepts. Students then selected one look to make, integrating custom three- or four-layered screen prints, tailoring techniques and knitwear.

We are also looking forward to see you all back next year and can’t wait to see your graduate collections! 🤩

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