UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. Degree Course in Nutrition Food Service Management and Dietetics
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester VI - Application Oriented Subject II - Clothing Construction

Number of Lectures: 6
Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

6 Hrs. Pract. / week

1. TECHNIQUES OF CLOTHING CONSTRUCTION

a. Selection, use and care of sewing machine and sewing tools.

b. Study of basic hand stitches - temporary and permanent.

c. Seams and seam finishes.

d. Methods of introducing fullness into a fabric - darts, tucks, pleats and gathers.

2. PRiNCIPLES OF PATTERN MAKING, FABRIC PREPARATION, PATTERN LAYOUT AND GARMENT CUTTING

a. Steps in preparing the basic bodies, sleeve and skirt pattern for children and adult women based on body measurement

b. Steps in fabric preparation.

c. Pattern layout

d. Methods of transferring pattern markings onto a fabric.

3. APPLICATION OF COMPUTER AIDED DESIGNING IN DRESS DESIGNING

PRACTICALS

1. BASIC SEWING PROCESSES

a. Hand stitches - Temporary and Permanent Stitches

b. Seams and seam finishes

c. Preparation and application of true bias facinig and shaped facing.

d. Plackets and Openings Continuous Placket, Bound and faced placket, Zipper placket and Tailored placket

e. Fasteners - Button and Buttonhole, Fabric Loops, press buttons, books and eyes and eyelets.

f. fullness - Darts, tucks, gathers, frills, pleats, ruffles and smocking.

g. Decorative stitches

2. MAKING PATTERN AND CONSTRUCTING THE FOLLOWING GARMENTS

a. Baby's dress

b. Baba suit (shirt with plain sleeve and knicker with elastic)

c. Girls frock with yoke skirt and sleeve

d. Saree petticoat

e. Choli

f. Salwar Kameez

g. Nighty

3. PROJECTS

Constructing a couple of designs of Baby's dress. Baba suit, Girls frock on crepe paper or fabric in small scale.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Allyne Bane - Creative Sewing Mc Graw - Hill Book Company (1980)

2. Durga Deulkar - A guide to household textiles and laundry work Atmaran & Sons, New Delhi (1951)

3. Hess - Textile fibres and their use Lippincot, Co, New York (1969)

4. Jurekar - Easy cutting

5. Joseph Manjory - Introductory Textile Science Pinchart & Winstone, lnc, New York (1972)

6. Irwin - Clothing for Moderns The macmillan Company (1957)

7. Lewis, Bowar, Kettunen - Clothing Construction and Wardrobe Plaining / Macmillan Co. (1976)

8. Mary Mathews - Practical Clothing Construction part / and II Cosmic Press (1996)

9. Norma, Hollen & Saddler - Textiles / The Macmillan Co. N.Y. (1973)

10. Wingate - Textile Fabrics and their selection Prentice Hall Inc, New Jersey (1976)

11. Irwin - Practical Dress Design

12. Granes Ryan - Complete Encyclopedia for Stitchery

13. Thames & Hudson - Textile Design

14. Potter & Corbman - Fibre to fabric Mc Graw Hill Book Co. N.Y. (1985)

15. Trotman - Dyeing and Chemical Technology of Textile fibres

16. Barnes - Complete Guide to Fashion Illustration.