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Home Furnishing Fabrics Education and Training

Learn more about home fabrics through different training opportunities

By Shalleen Mayes
Learning about furnishing fabrics can help advance your career, whether you're a retail furniture store owner, a store associate or independent furniture designer. Expanding your knowledge of home furnishing fabrics can be part of a larger course of study on interior design, but you can learn the basics of home fabrics with independent research on your part.

Training about home furnishing fabrics can take many different directions, including the different types of fabrics and their preferred uses, the difference between upholstery and lighter weight fabrics and current trends in interior design. You could also pursue the direction of science, finding products that make the best use of natural resources or ways to improve existing home fabrics with technology. Home textile training can include current trends in designer upholstery fabrics so that you can boost sales.

To boost your knowledge of textiles for the home, it helps to seek out information from a variety of sources, and continue to stay abreast of the latest news in the home products industry.

1. Pursue online training courses in furniture and house textiles.

2. Get additional training from brick-and-mortar interior design schools.

3. Attend trade shows related to custom fabric products for the home.

 

Gain knowledge about designer upholstery fabrics from online sources

Taking online courses is a great way to learn about the home textile industry without leaving your home or workplace. Through this investment in education, you can learn to sell upscale upholstery fabrics or how to stage or redesign a home's interior by incorporating upscale upholstery fabrics into the design.
Try: You can offer your sales staff online training and professional certification at the Furniture Training Company. The QC Design School offers online training and Professional certification as an International Design and Decorating Professional.

Learn about decorative furnishing fabric by taking interior design classes

You can learn more about house fabrics from universities as part of an interior design program. Many large universities offer interior design programs, as well as technical or specialty schools such as the Art Institute.
Try: The Textile Research and Training Institute (TRTI) at Eastern Michigan University offers coursework for those in the textile industry. The Art Institutes offer courses of study in a variety of fields related to home furnishing fabrics education and training, including interior design.

Get on top of trends in upscale upholstery fabrics at trade shows

Attending textile trade shows is a great way to learn hands-on about the home furnishing fabric industry. You can meet with producers of home textiles, learn about trends in decorative furnishing fabric, and make important business connections.
Try: You can find home furnishing fabric at the International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago, one of the largest trade shows in the home furnishings industry, or at the Home Textiles Market Week.

 

  • Don't forget to look at local craft stores for ideas about the latest trends in home textile choices. You can purchase small samples of house fabric and develop your own book of sample ideas for your business.

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