Textile design involves designing fabrics for different market segments considering the rightmaterials, colourpalette, weaves, prints, finishes, etc., that are used and sold by the fashion and textile industry at a particular time. Hence the trend forecasting in the textile industry begins well in advance, usually 2 years ahead of actual manufacturing. Various trend forecasting agencies extensively work, travel, observe, make reports and predict the major directions for theshort-term and long-term futures. This chapter discusses the trend-forecasting process in the textile industry, factors affecting the trends in the textile industry,and major trendsetting designs in textile design which includesinnovative technologies like 3D printing, e-textiles, nano-technology, AR VR etc. Moreover, somebreakthrough experimentations in the textile industry are also presented.