Department of Fashion Technology Report on Conceptualization Creation and Application of Textile Design(CCATD)
Three days textile designworkshopon “Conceptualization Creation and Application of Textile Design”was organised by Department of Fashion Technology, KCG college of Technology, Chennai from19/08/2019 to21/08/2019. 03 external participants from SRM University and 11 of our FT department II& I year students and faculty from FT department participated in the workshop. Mr.Subash Kumar Chirayil, textile design consultant from Bangalore and Mr. G. Hari Krishnan, freelance textile designer and natural dye expert from Kanchipuramextended their hands as resource persons for this workshop.
On the first day of workshop, Dr.V. BhanuRekha, Associate Professor&HoD i/C- FT Department, addressed the gathering and spoke about the importance of CCATD workshop.In first session,Mr.Subash Kumar, elaborated on the concepts of design research and identifying the inspirationsfrom nature and from around us.He also explained on the design principles to be considered while identifying an inspiration. He also explained about the various design bases such as horizontal, vertical , diamond , ogee , wavy /zig-zagand all over with examples from the commercial fabric designs.
Further on design styling types like choppy, ikat, digital abstract, linear, painterly, patterned, stippling/wornout, stitched/kaantha, lacing/crochet, pixelated, abstract, embroidered, block printed, embossed, stroked, silhouette etc.were discussed by the expert.
In Second day of workshop, practical session started from extracting design elements from the selected inspiration of individual participants. Design development or styling the motif and orientation. Motif development by manual and digital methods was explained by the expert along with repeat setting was also taught by expert.
In third day of the workshop, designer set the repeat settings of designs through by software edit tool were all demonstrated by the expert. Our students set their design repeats according to the instructions obtained from expert. At finally all prepared designed samples were cut as stencil sheets. Nylon screen frame and printing table were prepared by Mr. G. Hari Krishnan, Freelance textile designer with his help printing dyestuffs wereprepared in the department. Along with the help of ProfessorDr.R.G. Pannerselvam, students initiated printing process with their developed designs.
At the end of session, KCG college academic dean, Associate dean and HoD members of various departments visited the workshop. They appreciated the on-going activity of design developments initiative. Our Principal Dr.G. Prabhakaran praised the performance of our students in this initiative and appreciated by distributing the participation certificates.
KCG heads visited the Designing / Screen Printingworkshop