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Apparel Production [1]

Paper Code: 
DHSC 511 (C)
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students

  • To understand the concept of pattern making, preparation of fabric & fitting.
  • To create awareness about the working process in apparel industry

 

 

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- Unidirectional, bold and large prints, plaids, stripes and checks, various widths of fabrics

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

 

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020 [2]

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