ELEMENTS OF TEXTILE DESIGN

Paper Code: 
GHSC 111A
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • The course will enable the student to get an insight of design elements
  • The paper will enable students to get a knowledge of colours and colour ways to imply it to textile designing
12.00
  • Definition and understanding aspects of design
  • Classification to Design
  • Structural Design: Applied Design:
  • Design process – Concept, research, design exploration & conceptualization Classification to Design

 

12.00
  • Types of motifs: Geometrical, Stylized, Figurative, Abstract, Folk, Tribal
  • Types of Repeats:  Oogy pattern, Vertical, Horizontal, Twill, Mirror, Half step, All over
  •   Introduction to various types of designs and layouts

 

12.00
  • Elements of Design
    • Lines – types of lines and application of lines
    • Color – Intensity, value, hue
    • Aspects of color, color wheel and color schemes
    • Texture –definition and its types, factors affecting textures
    • Form – space, shape, form and silhouette
  • Principles of Design
12.00
  • Colour Concept and specification
  • Perception of colour
  • Warm and cool colours
  • Additive and Subtractive colour mixing.
12.00
  • colour schemes: Primary, secondary and tertiary colours, complementary colours, Hues, Tints and Shades,
  • colour ways
  • Theories of colour
Essential Readings: 
  1. MaryPaul Yates, Textiles: A handbook for designers, W.W. Norton & Company New York
  2. Carol Joyce, Textile Design, Watson- Guptill Publications.
  3. Gohl E.G. and Vilensky 1993: Textile Science, C.B.S. Publishers New Delhi.
  4. Garthe, M., Fashio & Color; Rockport Publishers
  5. Kadolph.J.S & Langford.L.A., Textiles,VIII ed.,1998,Prentice Hall, New Jersey

 

 

 

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