Knowledge of Textiles Construction
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| Textile Materials refer to a group of materials that are grouped together because they show certain common characteristics. These materials include but are not limited to: natural and synthetic fibres, yarns, knits and woven fabrics. Textile materials require particular basic techniques to be used to enable these materials to be measured, cut, shaped, joined and finished when making products. Advanced and complex techniques are required to craft special features of a high standard in a product and rely on the consistent application of accepted conventions to achieve a desired effect. Special features can be structural and/or aesthetic, and include: style features such as set in sleeves, fly front, tailored collars and cuffs, welt pockets; decorative features such as pin tucks, embroidery, shirring; and structural features such as 3D felting, combining different fibres in felting and different materials (eg, nuno felting). Initially students learn about textile materials per se, the basic techniques commonly used to work them, and the relationship between these. Students progress to learning about advanced techniques required to craft special features and the complex concepts and processes involved in textile material evaluation and development.
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| Demonstrate understanding of basic techniques used to make textile materials products
| Demonstrate understanding of advanced techniques used to make textile materials products
| Understand the concepts and processes employed in materials development and evaluation and the implications of these for design, development, maintenance, and disposal of technological products.
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| To support students to develop understandings about the basic techniques used to make resistant material products at level 6, teachers could:
- Provide opportunity for students to categorise a range of materials and identify those that display characteristics associated with the broad categories: resistant materials and textiles. Including materials that exist at the boundaries of the category eg, Vinyl, leather.
- Provide opportunity for students to explore a range of products made from textile materials in order to discuss the materials used, their characteristics (eg, Strength, thickness, stretch, drape) and the techniques that would be appropriate to work them safely.
- Guide students to explore how and why textile materials and techniques are combined differently for particular situations.
- Provide students with the opportunity to understand how basic techniques are undertaken in safe and effective manner, and the impact of these techniques on different materials. Examples of basic techniques include: measuring and marking out; sizing, shaping and forming; joining and assembling; finishing and detailing.
| To support students to develop understandings about the advanced techniques used to make resistant material products at level 7, teachers could:
- Provide opportunity for students to explore accepted conventions used when constructing products using textile materials, and discuss how these conventions guide constructing in materials in similar and diverse contexts. Examples of accepted conventions include: drape,parallel, perpendicular, offset, symmetry, array, tolerance, ease, clearances, taper, level.
- Support students to understand special features and the skills associated with their construction.
- Guide students to understand how and why techniques are brought together to achieve special features.
| To support students to develop understanding of technological products at level 8, teachers could:
- Support students to understand that textile material evaluation enables decisions to be made about what material would be optimal to ensure the fitness for purpose when taking into account both the technical feasibility and social acceptability of a textile material product.
- Support students to critically analyse a range of subjective and objective evaluative procedures used to justify textile material suitability and to explain the underpinning concepts and processes involved in these procedures.
- Support students to understand why the selection of appropriate textile material evaluation procedures relies on understanding the composition and structure of materials, how their properties can be enhanced through manipulation or transformation, the performance criteria required by technological products and an understanding of the physical and social context within which a textile material product will be situated.
- Support students to understand that the development of new textile materials relies on understanding: existing materials including their advantages and limitations; new material composition and structure possibilities; formulation procedures; future requirements, needs and desires; and an awareness that new evaluative procedures may need to be developed to determine the suitability of new materials.
- Support students to identify and analyse examples where new textile materials have been developed, including past and contemporary examples, to gain insight into how material formulation and subsequent evaluation procedures are used to address performance, maintenance and disposal implications and inform design and development decisions. Examples should include textile material development (including formulation procedures) and evaluation practices of technologists.
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| Students can:
- explain how the characteristics of textile materials influence the selection of safe techniques
- discuss why textile materials require particular techniques for their safe handling and use
- discuss why techniques and textile materials are combined in different ways across two or more situations.
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- identify attributes of special features in textile products
- explain construction requirements of special features
- explain requirements to obtain a quality finish in special features
- discuss why techniques are selected to make special features and how they are influenced by the characteristics of the materials used.
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- discuss examples of the formulation of new textile materials and explain the underpinning concepts and processes involved in their development
- discuss examples of evaluation procedures undertaken to determine the suitability of new textile materials and explain the underpinning concepts and processes involved in particular evaluations
- discuss examples of past textile material developments and explain how these impacted on product design, development, manufacturing, maintenance and disposal
- discuss examples of contemporary textile material developments and suggest probable implications for future technological product design, development, manufacturing, maintenance and disposal.
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AS91060 Construction and Mechanical Technologies 1.23Demonstrate understanding of basic concepts used to make products from textile materials
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AS91348 Construction and Mechanical Technologies 2.23Demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts used to make a product with textile materials
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Generic Technology 3.6Demonstrate understanding of material development
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Construct a Textiles Product
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Knowledge of Textiles Construction
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