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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine job requirements
   • Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
   • Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
   • Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
   • Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
2. Prepare to produce woven textile samples
   • Analyse design specifications and pattern for woven product and discuss with appropriate personnel to confirm production requirements
   • Identify desired effects of weaving and select appropriate weaving technique to achieve required outcome
   • Select yarns, quantities and equipment according to design requirements
3. Produce woven design sample
   • Set up workstation, tools and equipment according to specifications for work
   • Check yarns to be woven against quality standards
   • Undertake weaving techniques to meet design specifications for sample and according to workplace procedures
   • Monitor weaving techniques and outcomes throughout to identify production faults
4. Check quality of sample
   • Check completed sample against design specifications and pattern to ensure quality standards are met
   • Identify weaving faults and production problems and determine causes
   • Analyse weaving process, technique and materials used to determine necessary modifications to weaving techniques, processes or patterns
5. Complete production process
   • Rectify weaving faults and production problems or reproduce sample according to modifications
   • Finish woven sample according to design specifications
   • Examine outcomes with appropriate personnel and discuss and document possible modifications to design
   • Complete required documentation

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Workplace procedures include one or more of the following:	requirements prescribed by legislation, awards, agreements and conditions of employment SOPs work instructions PPE oral, written and visual communication quality practices, including responsibility for maintenance of own work quality and contribution to quality improvement of team or section output housekeeping tasks related to environmental protection, waste disposal, pollution control and recycling WHS practices
Appropriate personnel include one or more of the following:	trainers colleagues mentors designers patternmakers members of the design team
Yarns include one or more of the following:	singles yarns plied yarns: wool cotton silk novelty synthetics metallics unspun fleece rovings rag strips hand spun ribbon silk tops nylon filament
Sample includes one or more of the following:	complete woven product sample weave
Weaving tools and equipment include one or more of the following:	4-shaft Loom shuttles (stick, rag and ski) warping boards cross sticks scissors measuring tape

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria, and include:

reading and following work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs), safe work practices

analysing design specifications and interpreting production requirements

producing at least two (2) woven samples according to design specifications

identifying and addressing faults

making minor adjustments to equipment

monitoring own work, conducting quality check of sample outcome and modifying process, if necessary

applying workplace procedures

documenting outcomes and maintaining records.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence must be provided that demonstrates knowledge of:

safe work practices and procedures and use of personal protective equipment (PPE)

production requirements:

shaping

edging

tension

stitches

patterning

weaving

tuck and slip

colour

pattern

size

weaving modification techniques

weaving loom techniques:

plain weave

twill weave

satin or sateen weave

soumak

leno

rya

inlay

wrapped ends

Spanish lace

hatchings

honeycomb

traditional bronson

warp faced weaves

weft faced weaves

yarn characteristics

typical fault conditions:

incorrect warp tension

broken warp threads

incorrect beating of weft

incorrect threading, tie-up, treadling of design

incorrect use of materials

incorrect use of equipment

holes

foreign matter

loom or equipment faults

fault-finding procedures

types and styles of woven fabrics

simple equipment maintenance techniques

quality practices

workplace procedures

recording and reporting practices.

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