Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Distinguish types of TCF materials
- Recognise types of fibres and yarns, fabrics and textile materials used in the manufacture of clothing and textile products
- Identify methods of distinguishing and identifying fibres, yarns or textile materials
- Identify common and emerging fabrics used in the garment industry
- Identify processes used on raw fibres, basic processed yarns or finished yarns to create textiles
- Identify generic and trade names for common fabrics and textile materials
- Identify characteristics of fabrics
- Distinguish methods of constructing fabric and textile material
- Identify the purposes of processing stages
- Distinguish basic processes of spinning fibres into yarns or processing yarns into knitted, woven or non-woven textile material
- Identify textile product construction processes
- Identify uses of different types of fibres and yarns and their effects on finished products
- Identify uses of fabrics and textiles