TEXTILE DESIGNING
Need of the Community :
Clothes have been the means of enhancing personality and giving
identification, a way of self expression for a very long time – may be from
the beginning of civilization. In good olden times, vegetable dyes were
used to design fabrics. Pictures of animals and natural scenes were
depicted on clothes. All important eras of history have their characteristic
textile designing. In today’s world, textile designing has been
revolutionized by various techniques of mill dyeing, printing and finishing.
Students can also take up some textile designing activities not only for
beautification of their own clothes but also as an income generating
activity. This course includes different sub parts like Tie and dye, Block
printing, Screen printing and Fabric painting.
Learning Outcomes :
The student will be able to ;
1. Select dyes appropriate to the clothes eg. Direct dyes can be used
only for cotton.
2. Identify and understand all types of colour pigments, dyes, binders,
fixers and other chemicals appropriate for different types of textile
designing.
3. Prepare layout, draw and select colour schemes for two or more
colours for different textile designing methods.
4. Select right kinds of blocks, prepare them and use them for block
printing. They should be able to prepare table for block printing.
5. Weigh dyes, fabrics and understand the chemical reaction in dyeing.
6. Tie clothes using different techniques and materials, to depict
creativity.
7. Understand how to fix colours to make them permanent.
8. Trace or draw design for fabric painting using butter paper, blues
and mineral oil technique.
9. Do different kinds of shading in one or more colours.
10. Prepare one or more colour screens, set them on cloth and do
screen printing.
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