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RECOGNITION, ANALYSIS AND CATALOGUING OF TEXTILE Teachers: Eva Basile, Stefano Panconesi (Introduction to natural dyeing) First Stage: Plain and small-patterned cloth 63-hour course Recognition of various fibres; their characteristics and properties, the use of the heddle loom. Cataloguing criteria, the C.I.E.T.A. card. Basic weaves and their derivatives, cloth and taffetas, twill; satins. Combined weaves: baiadera, pekin. Double-faced weaves and double cloth. Gauzes. Decorative effects caused by floats in the warp or weft. Cloth with a double weft: faille, cannelé, poil trainant, mexicaine. Plain, cut and uncut velvets. Calendar Second Stage: patterned cloth 56-hour course The loom for patterned cloth, the drawloom and Jacquard loom. Weft effects: liseré, lancé and brocaded. Lampases with one or two pattern wefts. Brocatelles. Samites and taqueté. Patterned velvets. Practical work *The student learns a method for observing and analysing the structure of textiles, from the simplest to the most complex and is supplied with samples of every type studied. Calendar back to Teaching index

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