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Textile Designer resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what textile designers actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most textile designers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Textile designer working across print, surface pattern and woven design for fashion and homewares, comfortable from first sketch through to a mill-ready file. Moves between hand work and digital production tools, building repeats and colourways in Adobe Illustrator and NedGraphics and checking drape and scale in CLO 3D. Prefers studios where design decisions sit close to the production floor, because the sampling and spec work is where good ideas either survive or fall over.
Key skills
- Repeat pattern construction for printed, woven and knitted textiles
- Colourway development and colour matching to approved references
- Trend research translated into commercial ranges
- Hand drawing, painting and screen printing
- Digital textile design in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
- NedGraphics for repeat, colour separation and production files
- Procreate for concept sketching and quick colour studies
- CLO 3D for fabric drape and garment visualisation
- Technical specification writing for mills and manufacturers
- Fabric testing and sample evaluation
- Project management across sampling and production timelines
- Client, buyer and supplier communication
Experience: example bullet points
- Developed repeat prints and colourways for seasonal womenswear ranges, taking designs from hand-painted artwork through to production-ready files.
- Redrew an archive of roughly 80 older prints into clean vector repeats, so the studio could recolour and reissue them without going back to the original artwork.
- Tested designs on sample lengths with the mill and adjusted scale, registration and ink coverage until the strike-off matched the approved colourway.
- Wrote technical specs covering fibre composition, repeat size, colour references and finishing, which cut the back and forth with offshore manufacturers during bulk production.
- Presented seasonal concepts to buyers and licensing partners, walking them through the trend research and the commercial reasoning behind each colourway.
- Coordinated artwork, print trials and approvals for a homewares capsule so the range landed inside its delivery window.
Education
Bachelor degree in textile design or fashion and textile design (for example RMIT, UTS or Whitehouse Institute of Design), or a TAFE diploma in applied fashion design and technology with a textile focus; some designers add a postgraduate qualification in textiles or surface design.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Textile design
- Surface pattern design
- Repeat pattern
- Colourway
- Print development
- Woven and knit structures
- Digital textile printing
- Screen printing
- Sublimation printing
- Colour fastness
- Pantone TCX
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- NedGraphics
- CLO 3D
- Procreate
- Tech pack
- Spec sheet
- Fibre composition
- AS 2001
- ISO 105
- Oeko-Tex
- Global Organic Textile Standard
- Trend forecasting
- RMIT
- UTS
- TAFE
- ACCC textile labelling
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.