The 2020 graduating class of Jefferson University Textile Design students bring these diverse themes together in their digital thesis and capstone presentations. These are just a few of the concepts that served as inspiration for our May graduates.

Jefferson’s Textile Design students used their knitting, weaving, and printing skills to bring life to textiles created for interiors, apparel, and technical fabrics. Within this graduating class, you’ll see among other impressive examples of student-created cloth, knits made using advanced software, intricate hand-wovens and tufted samples, delicate prints, and hand-dyed pieces. Knitted garments designed by grad student Hannah Beckett illustrate a modern, pastoral aesthetic that shows that clothing manufacturing sustainability can be on-trend and classic without being patronizing or preachy. Lovers of modern industrial interiors should look no further than the elegant and tactile woven fabrics of undergraduate Courtney Locke. Graduate student Sonya Borowsky breathtakingly painted and printed the life and future of bees onto fabric fit for both the runway and the garden. And in one of the aptest collections for our modern times, printed messages of realist positivity and personal acceptance meant for our youth adorn backpacks and high school walls alike in an emotionally-charged body of work by undergraduate Elena Garrido.