Textiles are an integral part of daily human life, and creative design methods are becoming increasingly important with the growing textile market demand and driving the textile design education system improvement. Notably, textile design education in China is gradually integrating Western creative approaches and continuously exploring contemporary pedagogical directions in teaching creative textile design. In China's textile education, landscape sketching elements used in the morphological transformation is the traditional textile design and is also an essential educational direction of painting art design, which fully enhances the students' creative thinking and creativity, and has developed a unique design approach to the extraction of design elements in landscape sketching. In this study, we share cases of design practice from eight textile design students. Based on an innovative programme in the textile higher education system, they have transformed the sketched landscape icons into a new design arrangement and structural elements by combining techniques of diffusion and reconfiguration. Students are given more opportunities to work with “black”, “white” and “grey” to ensure a balanced design layout and visual transmission of the sparseness of the elements. In this process, students can manipulate the design logic and rationality in textile design, using the diversity of variations in the decorative sense of 'form'. As well as a comprehensive demonstration of a new concept of design imagery from landscape sketching. By studying contemporary artists' work and extracting material from the sources, students will progressively develop an appropriate application for their illustrative works and derivatives, i.e. to ensure that they can convey the design aesthetics of professional drawing following the research objectives. This study will thoroughly explore the potential pedagogical logic in the variation of landscape forms, as well as demonstrate the construction of order in students' elemental designs, the diversity of pattern design distortion techniques and the development of abstract compositional forms, to open up a new pathway for textile design education. This study supports more textile educators to inspire creative teaching. The case for bridging the teaching of abstract thinking in textile design education. This study found that applying this teaching method enhanced the interest of textile design students and improved their professional skills. This study can serve as a well-established pedagogical structure for teaching textile and can be used as a case study for contemporary educators to learn the newest Chinese teaching textiles.

Keywords: Landscape sketching, elemental form creativity, textile design, decoration.