Galashiels Textiles and Fashion

Heriot watt university

I have just moved from busy glasgow to a small town called Galashiels. Things are very different here from Glasgow, very quiet. Hopefully I grow to love it. I have moved into my new place and I will be studying a BA in Fashion at Heriot Watt university. I had my first tour of the university, the facilities are amazing and loads of different places where I can study and do my work. As I was at college for two years I managed to get into second year.

Galashiels

History

Galashiels is going to be a great place to study I think, its so quite which I think will make me get on with my work better. Galashiels is very well known for there textiles, By 1788 there where ten employers in town engaged in textile manufacturing and had risen by 35 in 1825. Galashiels is way out the way of any other town so there textiles where expensive and superior quality. This industry rapidly increased the population of the town. They then lost a lot of men and contacts at the time of the first world war. The textiles industry remained a major employment up to the second world war. Although the town needed a more balanced economy.

Present

Galashiels now is still very well known for its textiles industry. The Heriot watt university does a lot of courses in textiles and fashion. I think it really helps the learning process when the town has a bit of history.