APPRECIATION OF INDIAN ART AND

TEXTILES (THEORY)

OBJECTIVE: The course imparts the knowledge about the fabric characteristics due to its components fiber, yarn and construction that develops the foundation for fabric application in fashion. The course gives inputs in two major categories of fiber -natural and manmade, yarn types its properties, spinning and two major types of fabric -woven’s and knits which are majorly used in the fashion field. CONTENTS:

1. Cotton weaves

Dacca weaves

Jamdani weaves

Paithani weaves

Chanderi weaves

Maheshwar sarees

Gadwal

Vanaparti

Nander

Venkatgiri

Ikat

Kancheepuram

Madurai

Karakal

Pashmina

2. Silk weaves

Varanasi- silk brocades

Baluchar

Tanchoi

Paithani

Kancheepuram

Patola

Ikat

Vichitrapuri sarees

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Textile Arts Of India by Kokyo Hafanaka.

2. Traditional Indian Textile by John Gillow and Nicholas Barnard.

3. Handicrafts of India by Chattopadhyaya Kamaladevi.

4. Indian Embroidery, Calico Museum of Textiles Irwin and Hall.

5. Tie and Dye Textiles of India by Murphy V and Crill R.

6. Costumes and Textiles of India Dhamija Jasleen An Jay Jyotindra.

ASPECTS OF FASHION-II (THEORY)

OBJECTIVE:

Understand the trends in clothing behavior.

Gain an insight on the planning process involved in clothing selection.

CONTENTS:

1. Specific manner of clothing

2. Application of dress codes and dress codes according to different occasions

Cross dressing

Formal dressing

Semi formal dressing

Transparent/Semi transparent clothing

3. Inverse dress codes/Undress code

4. Gender and clothing

5. Clothing deficiencies

Stains

Faded color

Smell

Tear

Broken seams

Thin spots

Holes

Missing buttons

Broken zipper

Safety pins

6. Inappropriate or socially unacceptable ways of weaving

Unbuttoned

Unzipped

Backward inside out

7. Wardrobe malfunction

8. Under wearing

9. Reversalism

REFERENCE BOKKS: 1. Dearborn, The Psychology of Clothing. 2. Arnold (2011) Fashion, Desire and Anxiety. 3. Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS-II

(THEORY)

OBJECTIVES: Students will be equipped with effective communication tools required in the fashion business.

CONTENT:

1. English

Introduction to communication

Objectives of communication

Channels of communication

Downward

Upward

Horizontal

Media of Communication

Oral

Written

Non-verbal

Barriers to communication

Essentials of effective Communication

2. French

Work field

Describing the present and past job

Describing daily routine

Personal life

House, home, residence(description advantage, disadvantage,

location)

Customs, Religious ceremonies

Purchases, shopping, meals and food stuffs

Mode of communication

Telephone, telegrams, letters

Intimation of personal details

Measurements, dimensions, etc.

Dresses, materials, prices, etc.

Knowledge of grammar

Conjugation of verbs(Mainly present and present perfect)

Conjugation of modalverben(Present and past )

Passive voice

Nouns

Adjectives

Pronouns

Conjunctions

Prepositions

Terms used in fashion

REFERENCE BOOKS: 1 Business communication by Dr. Rodrigue. 2 Developing Communication Skills by Krishna mohan & Meera Banerjee. 3. Collins gen French Dictionary by Collins. 4.Cours De Lange Civilization by Mauger. 5 Essential English Grammar by Raymond Murphy. 6 Education & Communication for Development by O.P. Dahama & O.P.Bhatnagar.

COMPUTER APPLICATION-II

(THEORY & PRACTICAL)

OBJECTIVE: Students will acquire the knowledge of computer software’s like adobe photoshop and corel draw. Students will explore the tools and technology used to create digital art in today’s fashion. Students will acquire knowledge and get familiar with key concepts of computer to develop creative approaches for the fashion industry.

CONTENTS: Adobe Photoshop – CS 5

About photoshop

Using toolbox, palettes and context menus

Creating, operating and closing files

Changing canvas size, color modes and resolutions

Understanding and working with layers

Selecting areas

Picking and selecting colors

Paining and selecting colors

Creating text

Resizing and reshaping image

Scanning

Filter effects

Manipulating focus with blur, sharpen, and smudge

Adjusting tone with dodge

Morphing images

Cloning and pattern creation with the rubber stamp

Creating special images effect Introduction to Corel Draw

About corel draw

Using the menus, standard toolbar, property bar and dialog boxes

Drawing rectangle, ellipses, polygons, stars, spirals and graph paper

Drawing lines of all shapes and size

Creating and manipulating text

Selecting and transforming objects

Shaping objects

Filling and outlining objects

Viewing, zooming and ordering

Combining, breaking apart, grouping, ungrouping, separating and converting to curves

Weld, intersection and trim

Aligning, coping, pasting, and cloning

Lens, perspective and power clip

Fitting text to a path

Page setup

Uses of corel draw REFERENCE BOOKS: 1.Respective Software Manuals – Latest Version (Adobe Photoshop, Corel Trace). 2..Photoshop Retouching Techniques Eismann, Katrin, Simmon – Steve Publisher. 3.“Teach Yourself Access for Windows 95, Version 7.0” 1999, BPB Publications, New Delhi Siegel, Charles.

COSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES-II (PRACTICAL)

OBJECTIVE:

To learn and practice the sewing techniques.

To acquire the skills of hand stitches, fastenings, machine seams.

To acquire the skills of stitching different types of sleeves, openings, pockets and waistbands.

CONTENTS:

1. Tucks, pleats, gathers

2. Zippers

Centre

Lapped

Invisible

3. Collars

Non convertible

Convertible

4. Sleeves

5. Skirts

6. Term garment

Kurta

REFERENCE BOOKS: 1 Complete Guide to Sewing by Readers Digest. 2 Complete Book of Sewing by D K. 3 Singer Sewing Book by Gladys Cunningham.

FASHION ILLUSTRATION-II (PRACTICAL)

OBJECTIVES:

To understand the importance of anatomical studies as the basis of fashion model drawing.

To realize the need for understanding, clarity & confidence in drawing of the Human body as a mode of visual communication in fashion.

To develop skill in fashion model drawing (drawing from a live model).

CONTENTS:

1. Rendering techniques (with effects /textures)

Pencil

Steadler and color pencil

Charcoal

Water color

Poster color

Oil and acrylic

Head gears

Hand gloves

Jewellery

Shoes, Hills

Bags

2. Fabric Rendering

30 samples of different varieties of fabric

3. Photo Analysis

Different garments of Kids, Male and Female

4. Development of costumes

On croquis using elements of fashion (min – 10)

5. Portfolio Making

Thematic Designing/Grooming/Styling.

REFERENCE BOOKS: 1.Fashion Design Manual by Pamela Stekar. 2 Fashion Sketch Book by Bina Abling. 3 Fashion Illustration by Colin Barnes / Steven Stipelman. 4 The Fashion Guide by Haurent Hartung. 5 The Snap Fashion Sketch Book by Bill Giazer. 6 Figure Drawing for Fashion I & II by Isao Yajima. 7 Fashion Art for the Fashion Industry by Rita Gersten. 8 Fashion Design in Vouge by William Packer. 9 Fashion Deisgn Illustration by John Turnpenny. 10 Fashion Illustration Today by Nicholas Drake.

PATTERN MAKING-II (THEORY)

OBJECTIVES: The student will learn the importance of pattern making in fashion industry and acquire knowledge of tools and symbols used in pattern making. They will also develop the skills for basic pattern making along with dart manipulation techniques. The students will learn how to make patterns for all kinds of garments according to their own designs for men and women as well as for kids. The garment features such as sleeves, collars, cuffs etc. will be explored in detail.

CONTENTS:

1. Human Anatomy, Individual Measurement, Pattern Making Principles

2. Adult Bodice Block

3. Dart Manipulation

Slash and spread technique

Moving dart

Combining and moving dart

Move and divide dart

Pivot transfer technique

Bodies

- Moving dart to shoulder

- Moving dart to neckline

- Combining dart

- Combining and moving dart

- Dividing dart

4. Dart Manipulation

Curved

Parallel

Graduating

Radiating

Dart equivalents

Dart equivalent seam

Dart equivalent fullness

Dart added fullness

Added fullness

Dart equivalent seam fullness

Yoke dart equivalent gathers.

5. Sleeves (Adult) (Set-in)

Plain

Puff and derivations

Cap

Petal

Leg-o-mutton

Bishop

Lantern

6. Collars (Adult)

Non convertible

Flat roll

Partial roll

Full roll

Collars with deep open necklines

7. Collars (Adult)

Convertible

Mandarin

Roll

Collars with stand

8. Skirts (Adult)

Basic single and double dart

A line

Paneled

Gored

Flounce

Wrap

9. Skirts (Adult)

Circular

Circular with uneven hemline

Cascade

REFERENCE BOOKS: 1 Metric Pattern Cutting for children’s wear Winifred Aldrich. 2 Dress Pattern Designing by Natalie Bray. 3 Patternmaking for Fashion Design by Helen Joseph Armstrong. 4 Patternmaking for Fashion Designers Lori A . Knowles. 5 Flat Pattern Design Nora M. MacDonald.

SURFACE ORNAMENTATION-II

(PRACTICAL)

OBJECTIVES: The design process involves some value additions to improve the aesthetic value of the fabric. This subject makes students to efficiently use various surface techniques to exaggerate the look and covert the simplicity into creativity. The subject briefly introduces various techniques in printing and dyeing, embroidery ,machine embroidery, machine sewing and creative fabric textures. This subject imparts the skill to manipulate the basic techniques to come up with extraordinary applications of the same techniques to enhance the fabric surface. CONTENTS:

1. Tools and Techniques

Design transfer materials

Sources and interpretation

Choosing colour

Enlarging and reducing design

2. Embroidery (Hand and Machine)

Outline stitches

Border stitches

Variation of cross stitches

Composite band stitches

Types of isolated stitches

Open filling stitches

Solid filling stitches

Edging stitches

Insertion stitches

Machine embroidery

3. Traditional Indian Embroidery (Hand and Machine)

Basic embroidery stitches

Aari

Banjara

Banni or Heer (Gujarat)

Chamba Rumal (hp)

Chikan or Chikankari (up)

Gota (Raj)

Kantha (wb)

Kasuthi (Karnataka)

Kathi (guj)

Kutch, katchi bharat/sindhi stitch (guj)

Kashmiri embroidery

Phulkari (Punjab)

Pipli (odisa)

Pichwai (raj)

Shamilami (Manipur)

Mirror work (raj n guj)

Zari / Zardozi/ Kalabattu

Mukesh

4. Types of work

Cut work

Quilting

Patch work

Applique work

5. Textile Dyeing and Printing

Different types of bandhej

Batik

Block

Screen

Stencil

Fabric printing

REFERENCE BOOKS: 1 Ethnic Embroidery of India by Usha Shrikant. 2 Encyclopedia of Embroidery Stitches Including Crewel by Marion Nicholas. 3 Embroidery Designs by Nirmala C. Mistry. 4 Quilters Work Book by Pam Lonttot & Rosemary.