Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Analyse key influences on textile designs
- Identify significant historical events that have influenced textile design and analyse their effects
- Identify significant cultural influences on the development of textile design and analyse their effects
- Analyse contemporary influences on textile design
- Identify characteristics represented in textiles
- Analyse changes to production processes, including the effects of new and emerging technologies on textile designs
- Identify features of the design process
- Source information on textile designs and products
- Analyse textile construction techniques
- Identify characteristics of colour and prepare colour chart
- Investigate colour and identify dimensions
- Identify relationship between value and intensity and paint a colour chart
- Prepare colour wheel and shade scale according to colour mixing principles
- Implement colour matching of garment and garment items for production
- Inspect colour charts or check against quality standards and make any changes or adjustments, as required
- Complete documentation relating to colour charts
- Analyse influences on future directions in textiles
- Identify new or emerging textiles and examine features, benefits and likely uses
- Analyse trends and influences to identify possible changes in textile production and demand
- Identify and access sources of information relating to future directions and innovations in textile design to maintain currency of industry knowledge
- Present research information using industry appropriate presentation, communication tools and formats