Textiles
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- Created on: 26-04-13 13:38
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- Textiles
- Section A
- Question 1a
- Things you could talk about for the specification
- One or more decorative techniques
- Budget/price point
- Target market
- Colour
- Why create a mood board?
- Ideas for colour
- Design ideas
- Ideas for style
- What you need to find out before you start designing
- Fabric and components available
- Machinery available
- Textile techniques
- What products have sold well in the past
- Things you could talk about for the specification
- Question 1b
- b (ii)
- Develop idea
- Show from more angles
- Why your product would sell well
- b (i)
- Fabrics
- 2 designs
- Colour (if stated)
- Techniques
- Components
- Annotate
- b (ii)
- 35 MINS
- Question 1a
- Section B
- 1:25 HOUR
- Answer and lable questions about different parts of textiles
- Fibres
- Animal
- Angora
- Wool
- Elastic - crease resistant
- Warmest natural fibre
- Water repellent
- Hairy surface - irritant
- Shrinks when washed
- Mohair
- Silk
- soft, smooth, shiny
- Filament fibre
- Strongest natural fibre
- Does not crease easily
- Needs to be laundered carefully
- Expensive to produce and buy
- Natural
- Flax
- Cotton
- Creases easily
- Cool to wear because fibres lie close together
- Strong
- Fine and Flexible
- Washes well
- Absorbs water easily
- Shirts, summer dresses, sheets, towels
- Stains are absorbed
- Takes a long time to dry
- Linen
- smooth fabric
- dries quicker than cotton
- towles, trousers
- cool to wear
- Creases easily
- More expensive than cotton
- Coir
- Natural
- Flax
- Cotton
- Creases easily
- Cool to wear because fibres lie close together
- Strong
- Fine and Flexible
- Washes well
- Absorbs water easily
- Shirts, summer dresses, sheets, towels
- Stains are absorbed
- Takes a long time to dry
- Linen
- smooth fabric
- dries quicker than cotton
- towles, trousers
- cool to wear
- Creases easily
- More expensive than cotton
- Coir
- Small hair like structures that are used to make fabrics.
- Micro Fibres
- Polyester or nylon microfibres - finer than human hair
- Blended with synthetic or natural fibres
- Used for: Sports waer and out door pursuit clothing
- stretchy and warm when heat-treated
- Nano fibres
- Tiny molecules which improve fibres
- Used so fabrics will repel water, wont stain and won't crease when washed
- Synthetic
- Nylon
- Strong and elastic
- Clothes
- Collects static elec
- Acrylic
- Fake fur for toys
- Polyester
- Resists creases
- Colthing
- Does not absorb moisture
- Polar fleece
- Warm and light weight
- Not windproof
- Made from chemicals, coal and oil
- Nylon
- Regenerated
- Made from natural and synthetic
- Tencel
- Out door fabric
- Weather resistante
- Lyocell
- Outer wear clothes e.g. coats
- Viscose
- Light weight clothing
- Animal
- Decorative and enhancement
- Dying
- Hand
- Commercial: used for colours that do not need to change too quickly with fashion
- Batch
- Printing
- Rotary screen printing - continous printing
- Block
- Flat-bed
- Screen printing
- Applique
- Beading
- Quilting
- Patchwork
- Dying
- Fabrics
- Wovern
- Weft - run horizontally Warp - run vertically
- Strong, frays, does not loose shape
- Non wovern
- Made from raw fibres using: chemicals, heat or stitching
- Examples: Felts, bonded felts Laminated felts - gortex
- Weak, cheap, easily torn
- Knitted
- Made from loops
- Stretches and looses shape
- Wovern
- Modern textiles
- Smart
- Goretex: breathable, lightweight, waterproof. Used on jackets and shoes.
- Body enhancing fabrics: plasters with painkillers
- Memory textiles: shape memory
- Thermochromic fabrics: dyes that change colours at certain temps.
- Technical textiles
- Used in industries: Aerospace, Medicine, Military, Health and Safety and Transport.
- Manfactured for functionality
- Smart
- Production methods
- Batch
- Specific number produced at a time
- Mass
- A large number produced
- 24/7
- Produced at low cost
- Socks, t-shirts
- One-off
- Only one unique item is made
- Batch
- CAD & CAM
- CAD
- Computer Aided Design
- Quick to change and modify
- Sent to other countrys
- CAM
- Computer Aided Manufacture
- It is very accurate and reduces time of production
- cuts many layers of fabric at one time
- very expensive to buy machines
- CAD
- Social, cultural and enviromental issues
- Life style and fashion
- Gender images and peer group pressure.
- Trend forecasts
- Judge and identify emerging trends and predict future trends
- Globalisation
- Costs are driven down in the global market place.
- Life style and fashion
- Ethical trading
- Packagaing
- Packaging should be recycable or biodegradable
- Companies are trying tuce the use of packaging to make industry more eco friendly
- Recyling
- Plastic bottles are recycled to produce polar fleece
- Reduces the need for new materials and reduces waste
- Taking them to charity shops or recycling centres
- Resued for patchwork or rag rugs
- Fair trade
- Means that producers get a fair, realistic price for their product
- Poor working conditions and exploitation of workers should not be allowed
- Eco label
- Used on products that contain no harmful substances and has minimal effect to the enviroment
- Waste
- Dyeing - contaminate water and uses energy to heat water
- Reduce dye waste - use natural dyes or cold water dyes
- Waste from production should be reduced to prevent going to landfill
- Packagaing
- Quality assurance
- Guarantee of quality
- Ensures: high quality and fit for purpose
- Section A
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