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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 apply electronic systems to design and production
   • Interpret design brief to determine design criteria
   • Research trends, themes and influences in textile design and evaluate in line with brief
   • Evaluate complexity of design in terms of intricacy and range of features
   • Set up workstation according to workplace procedures, and create preliminary design concept images using relevant electronic system
   • Develop design concept using computer-aided design (CAD) system
3. Present and confirm design
   • Produce design image output that accurately documents intricate design features, scale and dimension and incorporates design elements
   • Produce storyboards and present using CAD processes
   • Present design to client or appropriate personnel for review and make modifications
4. Determine design specifications and machine settings
   • Calculate yarn and material requirements for design draft using CAD system
   • Confirm specifications in line with textile design requirements and save
   • Produce patterns
   • Calculate machine settings and calibrate with direct interface to textile production machinery, where appropriate
5. Finalise design
   • Confirm design and specifications with client or production personnel and save modifications, where necessary
   • Finalise and save production plans and specifications
   • Save final design and specifications as hard copy and incorporate into digital folio

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 design includes one or more of the following:	knitting weaving tapestry
Design concepts include but not limited to one or more of the following:	scale and dimensional aspects design features colour palettes texture and pattern effects
Electronic systems include one or more of the following:	Prima Vision Corel Draw AVL Multi-Colour or Colour-In Weavemaker Pro Swift Weave Design a Weave Pro Weave Scotweave Adobe Illustrator Photoshop Colour Matters Nedgraphics
Design criteria includes but not limited to the following:	styles colours trends budget purpose or function target market size and scale of product
Specifications include but not limited to one or more of the following:	warp and weft settings numbers of shafts and treadles block and mirror selection thread instructions scale yarn specifications colour allocation colourways shaping structure

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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 and safe work practices

applying design process to interpret design brief, researching trends, themes and influences and producing intricate designs to scale using at least two (2) electronic systems

producing design image output that accurately documents intricate design features, scale and dimension and incorporates design elements

developing and presenting storyboards to client or appropriate personnel for review, using computer-aided design (CAD) processes

presenting design to client or appropriate personnel for review and making modifications

determining design specifications and machine settings

using CAD to calculate yarn and material requirements, confirm specifications and produce patterns

calculating machine settings and calibrating with direct interface to textile production machinery where appropriate

confirming design and specifications with client or production personnel and saving modifications, where necessary

finalising and saving production plans and specifications

saving final design and specifications as hard copy and incorporating into digital folio.

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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)

industry and product processes

product and process development procedures

specifications:

warp and weft settings

numbers of shafts and treadles

block and mirror selection

thread instructions

scale

yarn specifications

colour allocation

colourways

shaping

structure

principles and elements of design

CAD system applications and operation

networked computer operation

associated computer input and output devices

patternmaking processes

textile production processes and practices

textile production machinery

operation of interfaced machinery settings

quality standards and practices

workplace procedures

recording and reporting practices.

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