CLOTHING CONSTRUCTION

Paper Code: 
CFSD 204
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  1. To incorporate the basic stitching techniques.
  2.  To impart skill in sample making for apparels.

 

Unit I: 
Course Content:

 

 

Sewing Machines:                                                                            04 hrs

  • Tools & equipment required for cutting & stitching                                      
  • Sewing machine and their special attachment
  • Main parts & functions of sewing machine
  • Care & Maintenance of sewing machine
  • Study of inter-relationship of Thread/ Needle/ Stitch length of different fabrics (Light weight, Medium weight, Heavy weight fabric)

 

Sample Making of the following basic hand stitches:                        16 hrs

  • Temporary Stitches: Basting- Even & Uneven, Diagonal, Slip and Pin basting
  • Permanent: Running, Hemming, Backstitch, Whipping and Button hole

 

Machine Stitching:                                                                           24 hrs

  • Seams:   Plain, Topstitch seam, Counter, Lapped seam, Run n fell seam and French seam
  • Finishes:  Edge stitched, Overcast and Bound  seam

 

Disposal of fullness:                                                 32 hrs

  • Pleats- Knife, Inverted, Accordion and Box pleats
  • Darts- Half and Full dart
  • Tucks- Pin, Cross
  • Gathers- By Hand & Machine, elastic and bobbin elastic    
  • Placket-Continuous wrap placket, two piece placket, kurta placket, trouser fly and slit opening
  • Facing(straight and bias) & Bindings
  • Pocket –Inseam pocket, Kurta pocket and Patch pocket
  • Fasteners –Buttons & button hole, Shirt buttons- with and without shank, Press buttons, Hooks & eye and Zippers ( close ended, open ended and concealed)

 

Product Development                                                    14 hrs

  • Preparations of two articles, one using hand sewing techniques and other with sewing machine technique

 

Essential Readings: 
  1. Reader’s, Digest, Complete Guide to Sewing, The Reader’s Digest Associations (Canada)  Ltd. Montreal,  Pleasantville, New York.
  2. Janace E. Bubonia. Apparel production terms and processes, Fairchild Books, New York 2012.
  3. Kallal, Mary Jo, Clothing Construction, Mc Millan Publishing Company, New   York 1985.
  4. Penelope, Cream., The Complete Book of Sewing - A Practical Step by Step Guide to Sewing. Techniques, ADK Publishing Book, New York , 1996.
  5. Connie Amaden- Crawford, Fashion Sewing Advanced Technique, Bloomsburg Publishing

 

References: 
  1.      Jacob, Thomas Anna., The Art of Sewing UBSPD Publishers Distributors Ltd. New Delhi
  2.  Holman, Gillian. Pattern Cutting Made Easy, BSP 1997.
  3. Lewis, Comparative Clothing Construction Techniques, New Delhi ,Surjeet Publications
     
Academic Year: 
2019-20
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