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Commercial survey of designs and fabrics for fashion and interior and exterior design and decoration. Principles and structure of the textile market, clothing for future needs, fabrics as communication, and their need for various settings and the environment. The course incorporates respective aspects of planning, purchasing, allocation, and promotion of the merchandise of fabrics. The communicative and critical applications for achieving results in the textiles industries involving merchandising, consultancy and advocacy, come into focus.

Introduction to Merchandising, Fashion Marketing, Role of Merchandiser, product development and product cycle. Types of merchandising. Channels of Distribution. Promotional activities of government and organizations. Domestic and Export Market Environment, International Market Environment. Buyers and Sellers Meet. Costing – Basic Costing, importance, types, merits and demerits; Domestic and Export Pricing, merits and demerits. Advertising- scope, importance, types, merits and demerits; sales promotion, personal selling. Retail management. Feasibility study on how to set up small scale and medium scale textile industry. Productive planning, economic use of materials, labour and machinery, costing and staff management. Prices and advertising procedures appropriate for textile merchandising. The various aspects of planning, purchasing, allocation and promotion of merchandise. Students will understand the importance of professionalism, effective communication and critical reasoning for achieving results in textiles and textile relayed industries. The Nigerian textile industry and other factors that can improve merchandising and market will be examined.

Definition of textile fibre and textile terms (yarn, filament, staple fabric, selvedge, warp yarns, weft yarns, grain, man-made fibre, fabric thread count); sources and classification of textile fibres. Methods of fibres identification. Properties/characteristics of textile fibres. Methods of fabric production (woven fabrics, basic weaves- plain weave, twill weave, satin weave), knitting, quilting, crocheting, lacing, bonding, netting, felting and lamination. Fabric finishes, purpose of fabric finishes, types of fabric finishes (beetling, calendaring, mercerization, sniggering, sizing, bleaching, carbonizing, abrasion resistant, shrinkage control, water-proof finish, moth proof, mildew control). Types of fabrics (cotton, linen, wool, silk, rayon, acetate, nylon/polyamide, polyester and acrylic fabrics). Fabric combinations, blends and mixtures. Reasons for fabric combinations. Uses and care of different fabrics.

Definition of textile fibre and textile terms, Classification of fibres according to their sources or origin, outline the production and world distribution of the major textile fibres, state the properties of textile fibres, test fibres for specific use, explain the principles and processes involved in staple yarn manufacture, explain the objectives of blow room operation, describe the mode of operation of carding machine, list the objectives and needs for combing, explain briefly other methods of yarn production, explain methods of manufacture and numbering of sewing thread, describe the general methods of production of natural sewing threads, explain the methods of manufacture of man-made sewing threads, explain the reasons for the application of finishes to sewing threads and the use various sewing thread for specific purpose.

The Principles, Methods of Woven, Non-Woven, Knitted, and Laminated Fabric Manufacture: explain woven, non-woven, laminated, knitted fabric, state the importance of each fabric in garment production, and identify the various types on 1.1 above. Textile Colouration and Finishing Processes: state the types of impurities present in grey state materials, classify dyes, explain the basic theory of dyeing.

History of Textile, textile design materials and techniques; traditional, contemporary and exotic methods of textile design; Theories, methods and practices of textile in two dimensions; paper design for fabric reproduction for all textile production techniques, colour separation of paper work for exposure, (Negative and positive). Design work for all resist’s method of fabric production with special emphasis on African traditional motifs. Transfer of colour separated paper works on mesh using different methods-hand application, photo chemicals. (Wood Block Printing, Silk Screen Printing, Roller Printing, Transfer Printing, Rotary Printing). Conversion of two- dimensional paper works to a functional textile product of all the techniques: printing (stencilling, screen, stamp). Resist (starch, batik, tie-dye, fold &dye, stitch & dye). Organising exhibition, tips to organizing an exhibition (Planning and Preparation, Budgeting, Location, Venue, Perks of the Venue, theme of the event, Consumer Interest, Marketing, send invites, publicise the event, logistics and transport, use of social media to promote the event, Following-Up); generating profits from exhibitions (sales of tickets, obtaining sponsors, selling exhibition space). Visits a textile factory.

Engaging the taxonomy of the exterior and exterior spaces of human interactions, green and sustainable designing are core to this course. The ideological underpinning from the above strategies is applied to soft furnishings, canopies, drapes, and props for the environment to meet sociological and psychological needs. Design adequacy for space and purpose is integral to the course, focusing on the material, structure, structure, task, and semantics of space.

Gaining practical understanding of the various methods, materials and machineries involved in the production of woven and non-woven textiles. Exploration of the techniques involved in the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric with reference to common types such as weaving, knitting, bonding and felting. Production of fabrics directly from the fibres. Development of loom, types and parts of looms. Applications of woven and nonwoven products.

This course examines such topics as the conceptual framing of art and the artist through the ages how the artist impinges on the society and the ethos of his milieu. The place of the artistic experience, grounds or errors in projecting the creative mystique upon reality in the conception of the artistic personality, investigating the place of artistic inspiration considering the common saying that the artist gives back to the society what the society created. It accommodates the platonic argument and psycho sensory rationalizations of Sigmund Freud Karl Jung and the place of the artistic metaphor and its origin in the socialization of Jacques Lacan and Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of art within the frames of habitus, cultural and symbolic capital.

The course provides an in-depth understanding of human anatomy and other life forms. Lecture time involves a study of models in various poses aimed at entrenching a mastery of form. Such sculptural concerns as portraits, total figures, torsos, expressive gestures in hands and limbs, single and multi-figural themes shall be explored to yield various personal experiences. This course would include collective critical evaluations that involve the students and the course director to hone professionalism through shared experience.