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 DESIGN OF JACQUARD CLOTH -->testo Italiano

velvet hand loom320-hours course (2 months) Maximum 8 students
Teachers: Eva Basile, Julie Holyoke
Lessons on the structure of textile design, on its transference to card, on mounting the loom and on the basic principles of Jacquard weaving and textile history. The student learns to design a patterned cloth, from the drawing to the technical organisation; preparation, application to card, the simulation of fabric also with the Pointcarré textile CAD for Jacquard textiles. The design is then realised within a sample workshop equipped with 6 Jacquard looms suited for different types of fabric. Samples of the best students' designs will be produced on electronic looms.At the end of the course the student will be able to assemble a portfolio including the completed Study Center projects.

Different mountings of Jacquard looms with one or more warps: liseré, pattern weft, brocade, lampas, brocatel, samit, taqueté, double weave, poil traînant.Analysis of weft effects on samples. Historical lessons about different effects. Drawing of technical designs.
Individual designs, study of possibilities of realisation. Puntching the cards. Weaving personal projects. Use of the state of the art computerized systems fot textile design. Possibility to weave some projects on industrial computerized looms.
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