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Manufacturing and Production - Textile Designer
Different materials - what do you know? Primary Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability
1. As a Textile Designer, you need to know about the different types of fabric! Look at the following sites and create a word cloud with all the fabrics you currently do not know.
2. You are to design your own swatch folder displaying the different types of fabric. This folder should contain as many types of fabric as possible. You can collect them as the year progresses. Ask fabric shops if they have any leftovers you can have to make up your swatch folder. The swatches should be
Describe each fabric - the type, composition, design colour and what it would be suitable for.
Fabric
Sample Page: Circa 1763
DIY Textile Design - How hard can it be? Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy
1. There are various services on the Internet now that allow you to design your textile and they will print it for you. Investigate the following websites:
2. You are to do a comparison between these companies based on
3. Discuss with a partner your findings. Did they come to the same conclusions? Would you be able to afford to design with this company?
Ethics and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding Australian Curriculum General Capability: Intercultural Understanding Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Asian Priority Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority Philosophy Cooperative Learning Activity
Teacher
1. Form groups of 3 - 4 students. Read the following article [March 2021] together and take notes. 2. Individually, list the impact of the textile industry in Bangladesh over the past 10 years. . Compare your list with your group - add to each other's lists. Are there any impacts that could be resolved by different industry practices? What are these? Share with the group. 3. What action should be taken - knowing the ethics of providing for a developing nation and the impact of the textile industry on Bangladesh's economy? How would you offer support without being patronising? How would you get the students of Australia to see that buying from Bangladesh has an impact? Discuss the positive and negative impacts of your actions. What International Aid should Australia give to Bangladesh to help with the environmental impact? Why? Why not? Does Australia have a moral responsibility? Why? Why not?
Discuss as a class.
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