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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 develop textile designs
   • Interpret design brief and clarify purpose of textile product
   • Determine design requirements from brief
   • Identify design constraints
   • Analyse examples of textile products that meet aspects of the design brief to clarify design objectives
   • Discuss brief with team members and establish design priorities
3. Analyse technical requirements of design brief
   • Research trends in yarns and raw materials used in similar textile products and compare against design requirements
   • Assess technical requirements associated with textile production processes, within specified guidelines and according to workplace procedures
   • Identify any additional expertise required for project
   • Identify impacts of materials and processes on design
4. Contribute to design concepts
   • Develop preliminary concepts with others to explore possibilities
   • Use storyboards, sketches or other tools used for textile designs to develop designs
   • Apply principles of design and elements of design to development of design ideas
   • Contribute ideas and discuss with team members to enhance success of project
   • Examine design ideas against design brief and select design for further development
   • Develop sample textile product to test design concept
5. Assist in the preparation of presentation materials
   • Select techniques for presenting textile product design
   • Develop support materials with team members to demonstrate features and benefits of textile design
   • Document design details

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
Textile products include one or more of the following:	tapestries knitted products woven products screen printed products carpets
Research trends include one or more of the following:	performance colour availability care and maintenance requirements
Design requirements include two or more of the following:	purpose design specifications, such as colour, yarn type, size and patterns production effects, such as warp, weft and tuft quality standards budget timeline pattern or images reproducibility uniqueness

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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

researching textile material and process trends

assessing technical requirements of textile brief

assisting with the preparation of preliminary design concepts

developing at least two (2) sample textile product to test design concept

producing sketches and other support materials manually or using computer-aided design (CAD) systems

developing support materials with team members to demonstrate features and benefits of textile design

documenting design details.

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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)

the elements and principles of design and how they are used to create good design in the textiles industry

elements of design:

line

shape and silhouette

colour

texture

value

principles of design:

repetition

gradation

rhythm

radiation

harmony

contrast

dominance

proportion

balance

unity

global and local trends

textile product construction

research sources

colour or colour mix and interpretation

fabrics, fibres, yarns, accessories and their properties and characteristics

quality practices

workplace procedures

recording and reporting practices.

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