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How Should Designers Build Their Own Fabric Library?

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This article is based on Cai Cai’s lectures in the public welfare class of Christine Tsui Fashion Community

Course Outline

I. How to obtain and make full use of offline fabric channels?

1. How to effectively play the large fabric market
2. How to maximize achievements in the textile exhibition

II. There are actually so many fabric resources online? !!

1. Platform-based Website sharing
2. Trade-based fabric companies sharing
3. Professional textile brand websites

III. How to create a personalized fabric manual?

1. Creating according to the category of fabric
2. Creating based on a theme

IIII. The retrospective summary of the 1^st – 6^th fabric special course

In fashion public welfare class

You will be able to:

Find fabric resources that are suitable for you in a more accurate and efficient way,

Manage them with efficiency and use them with flexibility.

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Sourcing Fabrics

-Small wholesaler

-Intermediary

-Importers and warehouses

-Commodity Fair

-* Textile mills

 

 

-Agent

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How to excel at fabric exhibitions?

Lecturer perception: the rise of the custom-tailor industry / baby’s fabric area / sustainable development area

 

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Fabric market

 

Advantages:

More direct feeling of the fabric (market price / drape / feel / color)

Collecting samples / proofs (material collection for MoodBoard)

Observe fashion trends (color / pattern)

 

Domestic fabric market:

Keqiao, CUHK and Evergreen in Guangzhou

 

 

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Factors to consider when purchasing fabrics

 

Gram weight: Gram weight per square meter | Gram weight per meter | Mm (usually in silk fabrics)

Width: 150cm (for trimmings, this width can maximize cost savings) | 112cm | 45cm-375cm

Orientation of the fabric: Downy (velvet | downy cashmere and wool)

Direction of prints (single placement print | single side placement print)

Test: composition, color fastness, antistatic performance

Small TIPS——abbreviation of fiber name (click image to enlarge)

 

Environmental considerations: carbon footprints related to manufacturing, ethics and fair trade issues, disposal of final fabrics

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Online fabric resources

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purpose

 

Conveys ideas of Moodboard;

Helps organize fabric knowledge systematically

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method

 

Fabric type: knitted, woven

Ingredients: Silk | Wool | Linen …

Theme: Color | Pattern | Texture

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Christine Tsui Fashion Open Welfare Class

Review and summary of the 1^st -6^th special fabric course 

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1. Basic concepts of fabrics (basic literacy)
2. Demystifying imported fabrics (maintenance of expensive coat fabric)

3. Maintenance of autumn and winter fabrics (animal fibers)

 

4. Maintenance of silk

5. Travel in search for beautiful cloth -Beautiful cloth around the world

6. How do designers create their own exclusive fabric resource library

(This lesson is lesson 6, so there is no picture)

 

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