COURSE UNIT TITLE

: KNOWLEDGE OF FABRICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TEA 2124 KNOWLEDGE OF FABRICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Textile Design

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR SEDEF ACAR

Offered to

Course Objective

In this course, analyzing the woven, non-woven, knitting fabrics by means of fabric samples, dealing with production methods, their technical features and usage features and dealing with patterns with specific characteristics and fabrics which has a proper name due to its structural features are aimed.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Know fabric production processes
2   Know structural features and usage features of fabrics
3   Know the importance of technique and raw material in structural features
4   Correlate technique, motive and pattern
5   Define performance features and usage area of the fabrics properly

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General catagorization of fabrics according to production methods
2 Dealing with structural and aesthetic features, and usage and production features of textile fabrics
3 Fabrics with main weaves. Analyzing the fabric with samples according to weave, dyeing method, and raw materials. Discussing on the usage areas.
4 Analyzing the fabrics with plain weave and derivatives. Classification according to dyeing, patterning, raw material, yarn, grammage features. Discussion on usage areas.
5 Analyzing the fabrics with twill and derivatives. Classification according to dyeing, patterning, raw material, yarn, grammage features. Discussion on usage areas.
6 Analyzing the sateen and derivatives. Classification according to dyeing, patterning, raw material, yarn, grammage features. Discussion on usage areas.
7 Fabrics weaved via extra warp and weft systems. Samples of fabrics with warp and weft and fabrics with interlining warp and weft. Fabrics with plate, pique and seersucker. Their structural and aesthetic features, and grammages. Discussion on usage area. Multi-layered fabrics. Discussion on usage area.
8 Multi-layered fabrics. Their structural and aesthetic features, and grammages with samples. Discussion on usage area.
9 Midterm
10 Towel, velvet and leno weaved fabrics. Their structural and aesthetic features with samples. Fabrics used in decoration methods with samples. Discussion on usage areas.
11 Fabrics having the devore, flock, transfer and digital printing techniques.
12 Knitting fabrics. Their typical features. Their pattern features and structural decisive features. Discussion on usage areas.
13 Knitting fabrics. Their typical features. Their pattern features and structural decisive features. Discussion on usage areas.
14 Nonwoven fabrics with samples. Their decisive features. Discussion on usage areas.

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Sources
Clothing Technology-From Fibre To Fashion, (English Edition), Hannelore Eberle, Hermann Hermeling, Vollner GmbH & Co. London, 1998
Fabrics, Caroline Lebeau, Thames And Hudson, London, 1994
The Primary Structures Of Fabrics, Irene Emery, Thames And Hudson, Washington, 1994

Subsidiary Sources
All About Cotton, Julia Parker, Raincity Pbl., Washington, 1998
All About Wool, Julia Parker, Raincity Pbl., Washington, 1998
All About Silk, Julia Parker, Raincity Pbl., Washington, 1999
Scottish Estate Tweeds, E.P. Harrison, Johnston Of Elgin, London, 1995

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Courses
Instructor gives information about the fabrics by classifying the production methods and giving samples. Students are asked to define fabric types, raw materials, production methods and usage areas properly, by using given information.

2. Revising Sessions and Class Discussions
Every week in the first hour of the lecture, instructor organizes revising sessions by giving fabric samples. Intracurricular fabric analyses are crucial for the problems solved in this environment. Students are promoted significantly to participate in class discussions and state opinions about the designs.

3.Applications
Students are supposed to prepare fabric catalogues according to determined criteria after learning the fabrics in different ways.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Student prepare assignments appropriate for course subjects
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

Attendance to subject
Atendance to course
Assignments

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1.It is compulsory to maintain 80% 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)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Before and after the lecture (reading texts, articles, etc.) 13 1 13
Preparations for mid-term exam 1 4 4
Preparations for final exam 1 4 4
Preparations for assignment 1 10 10
Final Exam 1 2 2
Mid-term Exam 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 61

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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