APPAREL PRODUCTION

Paper Code: 
DHSC 511(C)
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to –

  1. Understand the concept of pattern making, preparation of fabric and fitting.
  2. Create awareness about the working process in apparel industry

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

DHSC 511C

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apparel Production

(Theory)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The students will be able to –

CO238: Identify various pattern making tool and equipments and their uses in the garment making

 

CO239: Explain various preparatory steps for garment construction 

 

CO240: Develop understanding for seams and finishing of raw edges

 

CO241: Differentiate different garment components and their construction and application

 

CO242: Evaluate good fit and able to find remedy for common fitting problems

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation,  presentation, Giving tasks

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation

 

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to pattern making: Tools, Terms and Techniques
  • Importance of taking body measurements
  • Importance of patterns and pattern information
  • Methods of pattern making
  • Rules of pattern making
  • Principles of pattern making

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Preparatory steps for garment construction
  • Fabric grain
  • Preparatory steps- preshrinking, straightening and truing
  • Layouts for patterns- general guidelines, basic layouts- lengthwise, partial lengthwise, crosswise, double fold, open, combination fold
  • Pinning, marking and cutting
  • Layouts for fabrics- Unitdirectional, bold and large prints, plaids, stripes and checks, various widths of fabrics

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Seams and finishing of raw edges
  • Types of seams- Plain and its finishing, flat, ridge, decorative
  • Additional seam techniques: clipping, notching, grading, trimming, easing, under stitching, stay stitching, trimming a corner
  • Crossway strips-importance and applications , Finishing of hemlines

 

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Study of garment components: application and construction
  • Classification and application of Apparel fabrics, shaping devices, underlying fabrics (underlining, interfacing, Interlinings & Linings), Pockets, neckline treatment, Sleeve treatments, Waist treatments, closures, Plackets, Sleeve treatment, Trimmings & fit.
  • Standard for evaluating the components of a garment.

 

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Garment Fitting
  • Definition, fitting room, criteria for judging fit in a basic garment
  • Factors affecting  fit
  • Common fitting problems and their remedies for fitting defects.
  • Fit: Fitting area, fitting guidelines, fitting procedure

                                                 

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Reader’s, Digest, Complete Guide to Sewing, The Reader’s Digest Associations (Canada) Ltd.  Montreal, Pleasantville, New York.
  • Kallal, Mary Jo, Clothing Construction, Mc Millan Publishing Company, New   York 1985.
  • Cream, Penelope., The Complete Book of Sewing - A Practical Step by Step Guide to Sewing Techniques, DK Publishing Book, New York ,1996.
  • Janace E. Bubonia. Apparel production terms and processes, Fairchild Books, New York 2012.
  • Armstrong, Pearson., Pattern making for Fashion Design,. Fair Child Publication, New York 1995 (Indian ed.)
  • Norma Hollen, Jane Saddler, Anna L. Langford & Sara, J., Textiles 6th ed., Macmillan Publication, New York 1988.
  • Dorthy wood, the practical encyclopedia of sewing, Anneess publishing Ltd, London.

 

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022
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