Dokuz Eylül University Information Package / Courses Catalog

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
TES 4170	KNITTING DESIGN	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	5

Offered By

Textile Design

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR SEDEF ACAR

Offered to

Accessory Design
Textile Design
Textile
Textile and Fashion Design Department
Fashion Clothing Design

Course Objective

This course is for designing knitting fabrics, knitting clothing and decorative knits. Particularly, making designs by using color, yarn, raw material and technique criteria properly and making practices by teaching production calculations are aimed.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Design fabrics and products for knitting textiles.
2	Correlate color and shape in designs in accordance with chosen theme and aesthetic level
3	Make jersey designs on paper or make hand-made knitting designs
4	Make the designs available for production within the scope of the given project
5	Follow and apply interior, apparel, decorative knitting and knitting fabric fashion trends, and have ability to create a trend

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

TEA 2140 - Textiles Design II

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Material and trend research on knitting textile
2	Determination of the themes and presentations according to research.
3	Start for sketch creation according to projects
4	Sketch studies
5	Sketch assessment, determination of 6 main design and combination recommendations
6	Transition to main design studies
7	Main Design Studies, Transition to Application Studies
8	Design Studies, recommendations about presentations
9	Design studies, presentations
10	Design studies, presentations
11	Design studies, presentations
12	Design studies, presentations
13	Design studies, presentations
14	Assessment

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Source:
Collezioni Trends Magazine, Edited By Guilia Bulgarelli, Logos Publishing Srl., Italy, Süreli yayın
Encyclopedia Of Knitting, Dona Kooler s, Leusire Arts Publication, Arkansas, 2012
Subsidiary Sources:
Örmecilik Esasları, Fatma Çeken, D.E.Ü. Mühendislik Fakültesi Basım Ünitesi, Izmir, 2004
Örme Terimleri ve Tanımlamaları, Arzu Marmaralı, Serap Dönmez Kretzschmar, E.Ü. Tekstil ve Konfeksiyon Araştırma-Uygulama Merkezi Yayını, No:26, Izmir, 2004
Knitted Clothing Technology, Terry Brackenbury, Blackwell Science, USA, 1992

Other Course Materials:
Fashion magazines, decoration magazines, magazines on textile art, fair brochures, trend analysis reports, trend analysis web sites

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Courses
Instructor guide to students to design according to starting points related to fashion trends, target group and application fields by making research on fashion trends and modern and innovative material, to produce solutions for the problems emerging during the design and production process and ask them to state their opinions via both visual and written presentations (production reports, history book explaining the design process, presentation sheet, product etc.).

2. Revising Sessions and Class Discussions
Every week in the first and last hours of the lecture, instructor organizes revising sessions about being studied jacquard weaving fabric samples at different quality levels, being transferred the designs appropriate for current trends to the computer program, proper usage of the program icons on the basis of the given time. Students are promoted significantly to participate in class discussions and state opinions about the designs.

3. Applications
Students are informed about preparing a production report sample which is on what kind of strategy they need to use in the process of transition from design to production

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	ASG	ASSIGNMENT
2	ASG	ASSIGNMENT
3	PRJ	PROJECT
4	ATT	ATTENDANCE
5	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	ASG * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRJ * 0.40 + ATT * 0.10

*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Student works are graded according to aesthetic value of the design, creativity, invention, innovative approach, starting point s reflection on the designs, design suitability with the product group, suitability of the technique, weaving, materials determined in the process of transition from design to production, product suitability with design and its applicability in mass production.

Attendance point of the student depends on (1) course attendance, (2) quality of the answer given to the instructor s questions during the lecture and in-class design study, (3) student s contribution in order to create a positive learning environment

Assessment Criteria

Approach in conception and terminology on textile design
Examination of related techniques
suffiency of Projects and skethes
sufficienty of woven practices
presentation

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1.It is compulsory to maintain 70% of class attendance.
2. Any attempt for plagiarism result in disciplinary penalty.
3. Absence in the class is not a valid excuse for late submission of the projects and assignments.
4. In case of the late submissions, students lose point equal to one letter note for each day right after the dead-line.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sedef.acar@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tel. 0232 3016754
sedef.acar@deu.edu.tr

Work Placement(s)