The problems of the domestic light industry can be solved from the standpoint of an innovative approach in the integrated introduction of new technologies, a professional approach to the choice of ...design techniques and the use of high-tech equipment in personnel training and in the production process.
This article presents a case study of a collaborative project between garment technology students and museum costume curators, centred around object-based research. The project brief was to ...re-produce patterns and toiles of selected archive garments, with a focus on incorporating digital
pattern technology, to explore the possibilities of this technology in an exhibition context. In addition to these specified outcomes, a successful knowledge exchange was observed, with the curators advising the provenance and social history of the pieces and the students sharing their expertise
in manual and digital pattern cutting and in garment construction. During the project, the personal development of the students transitioned from a position of inexperience relating to archived garments, to one of recognized expertise through their recreation of the pieces in a pattern and
construction context.
Current research of auxetic materials highlights its potential as personal protective equipment for sports apparel with enhanced properties such as conformability, superior energy absorption and ...reduced thickness. In contrast, commercially available protective materials have proven to be problematic in that they inhibit movement, breathability, wicking and that molded pads are prone to saddling. Foam components are embedded within personal protective equipment for sports apparel, where protective material is positioned at regions of the body frequently exposed to injury of the soft tissue through collision, falls or hard impact. At present, the impact resistance of auxetic open cell polyurethane foam and some additively manufactured auxetic structures have been established, and processes for manufacturing curved auxetic materials as well as molding methods have been developed. Despite this, auxetic materials have not yet been applied as personal protective equipment for sports apparel in current research. This paper argues that there is scope to investigate auxetic materials potential for enhanced wearer functionality through properties of synclastic curvature and biaxial expansion.
This paper describes the methods for determining the normal times of machine-hand technological suboperations in sewing curved seams with two radii of curvature, based on systematic research and ...measurements during the performance of machine-hand suboperations in sewing. For that purpose measurements were performed in the laboratory of the Department of Clothing Technology at the Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb, using modern measurement equipment, as well as the recording technology of the process of sewing clothes in a real production process. After that, the video recordings were analyzed and the times of performing the sewing suboperations were extracted. Based on the measured data a mathematical model and a computer program to calculate relevant parameters in joining work pieces with two radii of curvature BIR were established. Key words: garment technology, normal times, machine-hand suboperations, curved seam, mathematical model
The potential doubling in the percentage of the elderly within the populations of Europe and beyond over the next decades has focused informatics research on the development Assistive Technologies ...and Smart Homes. However its concentration on creating a supportive home environment also has the potential for makings its users over dependent on its facilities and as a result trapped within it. This paper outlines an approach that extends the smart homes concept out into the wider community to create a smart environment that not only maintains contact with all their home-based services, but also expands these to include other facilities needed to assist them whilst on the move. This involves the convergence of physiological monitoring, communications and computing with leading-edge textile technologies, which uses a multi-layered, multi-functional clothing system as a mobile and extended variant of a smart home IP hub. In addition to variable functionality capabilities of the clothing layers in terms of thermal, shock-absorbent and other characteristics, wireless IP connectivity is provided between layers with external links typically being WiFi enabled. Health optimisation is provided by on-going lifestyle guidance/action feedback based on auto-diagnostic analysis.
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