Introduction

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN AND APPLICATION
Lesson 14: Textile Designs for Different End Uses: Factors Affecting the Selection of Design

Introduction

The words fabric and cloth are used in textile assembly trades (such as tailoring and dressmaking) as synonyms for textile. However, there are subtle differences in these terms in specialized usage. Textile refers to any material made of interlacing fibres or yarns. Fabric refers to any material made through weaving, knitting, spreading, crocheting, or bonding. Cloth refers to a finished piece of fabric that can be used for a purpose such as covering a bed.

Uses of textiles

  • Clothing or apparels: menswear, women’s wear, kid’s wear, sports wear
  • Fashion accessories such as bags, belts, shoes, hair bands, watch straps, umbrella, scarf, stole, cap etc.
  • Household fabrics such as bed linens, furnishings etc.
  • Containers such as bags and baskets
  • Industrial and scientific processes such as filtering
  • Technical textiles such as sport tech, meditech, geotech, agritech, mobiltech etc.
  • Transportation devices such as balloons, kites, sails, and parachutes
  • Miscellaneous uses include flags, backpacks, tents, nets, cleaning devices such as handkerchiefs and rags

Majority of the fabric produced all over the world is used for clothing and furnishing purposes. Clothing is also required for other intimate uses such as modesty, protection, self-enchantment and self expression. The designing of textiles comes into consideration when consumers, industry, artists throw light on beautification, style, surface embellishment, decoration, value addition, promotion, and public demand. The promotion ultimately influences the production and marketability. Apart from some selective technical textiles like – agro, geo, medi, industry, space textiles, others viz., sports, smart textiles, intelligent textiles etc. serve as functional clothing and also used for aesthetic sense.

Clothing and house hold textiles are the major consumer products where design is a vital consideration. Importance of designing for these products is main concern in order to give different look and add variety. Design type, unit base, dimensions of the motif and pattern, colour combination and fabric type depends upon the specific end use of the fabric.

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