FES460 : Fabric for fashion / College of Creative Arts

This course focuses on an understanding of fabrics. The course provides essentials overview of fabrics from fiber through a yarn and finally finished fabrics and garments. Students will explore how the fiber content of fabrics helps to determine their characteristics, quality and cost, how fabrics are developed, their end uses and what to look for when sourcing. Student will also learn about natural and man-made fibers, their origins, properties and production. By touching and examining fabric samples students will quickly learn how to identify commonly used fabrics and start to build up an understanding of fabrics, the raw materials of fashion.