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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 tapestry samples
   • Analyse design specifications and cartoon image and discuss with appropriate personnel to confirm production requirements
   • Identify desired effects of tapestry techniques and select appropriate processes to achieve required outcome
   • Select yarns, quantities, tapestry looms and equipment according to design requirements
3. Produce woven tapestry design sample
   • Set up workstation and tools and equipment according to specifications for work
   • Check yarns against quality standards
   • Undertake tapestry techniques to meet design specifications for sample and according to workplace procedures
   • Monitor tapestry techniques and outcomes throughout to identify production faults
4. Check quality of sample
   • Check completed sample against design specifications to ensure quality standards are met
   • Identify tapestry faults and production problems and determine causes
   • Analyse tapestry process, technique and materials used to determine necessary modifications to tapestry techniques, processes or specifications
5. Complete production process
   • Rectify tapestry faults and production problems or reproduce sample according to modifications
   • Finish tapestry sample 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
Production requirements include three or more of the following:	shaping tension striping weaving tuck and slip colour pattern size tension
Appropriate personnel include one or more of the following:	trainers colleagues mentors designers members of the design team
Tapestry techniques include two or more of the following:	hitching on and off plain weave in open and closed passes high and low turns weaving of simple shapes, such as triangles, curves and circles hatching methods (e.g. regular and random) colour blending and tonal gradation half passing joins soumak, knot and surface texture
Yarns include one or more of the following:	weft yarns: wool cotton silk novelty yarns warp yarns: cotton seine twine
Sample includes one or more of the following:	complete tapestry sample tapestry
Tapestry tools and equipment include one or more of the following:	tapestry loom bobbins scissors plumb bob cotton seine twine weft yarn marking pen ruler masking tape tapestry needles table chair

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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) tapestry samples using different techniques according to design specifications

making minor adjustments to equipment

identifying and addressing faults

monitoring own work and conducting quality check of sample outcome with relevant personnel

applying workplace procedures

maintaining documentation.

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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)

tapestry modification techniques

tapestry techniques

yarn characteristics

typical fault conditions

fault-finding procedures

types and styles of tapestries

simple equipment maintenance techniques

quality practices

workplace procedures

recording and reporting practices.

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