Workshop on “Exploration of Textiles”

Department of Fashion & Textiles

Report on “Exploration of Textiles”

Date: 26-27.02.2019

Activity: Workshop

Venue: A-501

The Department of Fashion and Textiles invited Mr. Akshay Tholia, Entrepreneur, Apparel and Fashion Coach and Author, Jaipur two days workshop on “Exploration of Textiles”.

It was an interactive session between the resource person and the students of B.Sc. Fashion Design semester II & IV and M.A./M.Com./M.Sc. Fashion Design Semester II .The main objective of the workshop was to give an exposure of varieties of textile fabrics and their performance.        

The workshop started with an introduction of the different fibers , their properties and uses. This was  followed by a informative and fun quiz session where students were given samples of different kind of fabrics swatches of natural fibers such as cotton, wool, silk, linen, jute, bast, hemp ,  synthetic and regenerated fibers of glass nylon, polyester, cotton-spandex, acetate rayon, lyocell, leurex.

The  students were taught about yarn numbering system i.e. Direct and Indirect System and learnt  to determine the fineness or thickness of the yarn. 

The second day of workshop started with briefing the students about essential textile terminology and helped solve some numeric based on the same to clear their concepts.

Mr. Tholia also explained the different weaves of fabrics and their properties as it is the basis of making many types of cloth. Weaving creates a wide variety of utility and fashion cloths. He further gave the importance of weaving is the critical process that turns a raw material such as cotton and its yarn into a fabric that can be made into useful products such clothing, bed sheets, etc.

Mr. Akshay Tholia during the duration of two days was able to help the students understand why certain fabrics are more durable and therefore more serviceable for specific purposes and why certain fabrics make cool wearing apparel as well as give an impression of coolness when used as decoration. The workshop helped students develop the ability to distinguish quality in fibers, yarns and fabrics and, in turn, to appreciate the uses textile fabrics.

Dr. Radha Kashyap                                                Teacher Co-Ordinator

Head of Department Fashion and Textiles               Ms Poorvi Agarwal

                                                                               Ms Aditi Singh

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