Fashion Designer Materials & Techniques 4

Question 1

What is a 'dart' in garment construction used to achieve?

Accepted Answer

A fold of fabric that removes excess and creates three-dimensional shape

Answer

A dart is a stitched fold of fabric that tapers to a point, eliminating excess fabric to shape a flat piece of fabric to fit body curves.

Question 2

Which fabric treatment chemically processes cotton to increase its luster, strength, and dye affinity?

Accepted Answer

Mercerizing

Answer

Mercerizing treats cotton with a caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) solution under tension, swelling fibers and increasing luster, strength, and dye uptake.

Question 3

What is 'weft knitting' primarily characterized by?

Accepted Answer

Yarn running horizontally across the fabric width, forming interlocking loops

Answer

In weft knitting, a single yarn runs horizontally across the fabric, forming rows of interlocking loops that give the fabric stretch and the ability to unravel.

Question 4

Which fabric is produced by a loom that creates loops on one or both surfaces of the ground fabric?

Accepted Answer

Terry cloth

Answer

Terry cloth is woven with extra loops on the fabric surface using a pile weave, and those uncut loops create absorbency ideal for towels and robes.

Question 5

What is 'toile' (or 'muslin') in the fashion design process?

Accepted Answer

A test garment made in inexpensive fabric to check pattern fit before cutting final fabric

Answer

A toile (called muslin in the US) is a prototype garment sewn in cheap fabric to test and adjust pattern fit before committing expensive materials.

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