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Costume Designing
It is the costume designers responsibility to draw up the costume plot. The costume plot is a list or chart that shows which characters appear in each scene, what they are wearing and their overall movement throughout the play. This helps track the specific costume needs of every character. It can also identify any potential costume challenges, such as very quick changes between scenes. USA is the union that represents costume designers. Although most professional designers are union members, USA has...
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Embroidery
Computer Role in Embroidery. Specialized Embroidery Machines have been designed to work with data from a computer. This data instructs the machine to stitch a particular design, determines the correct stitching order, indicates when to trim threads, and many other functions. In only a few minutes, the computerized embroidery machine will stitch a design with precision accuracy that no human can match for near perfect quality. The process works like this:. Commercial and Contract Embroidery Factories.
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Fashion and Fragrance
Fashion ana Fragrance of 1990s Perfumes. The 1990s saw a whole new range of Millenium Perfumes cleaner sharper scents which probably began with Estee Lauder's White Linen from the 1980s. Perfumes such as L'Eau d'Issey by Issey Miyake in 1990s, Eternity and Dazzling all have a crisper scent. New perfumes of the millennium include the lovely Kenzo Flower, Guerlain's Mahora, Calvin Klein's Truth, Rossellini's Manifesto, Lancôme's Miracle, Boucheron's Initial, YSL's Nu, Michaels Kor's Michael, Nina Ricci's P...
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Fashion Merchandising
Skills Needed For Fashion Merchandiser. While more methodical than fortune telling, fashion merchandising does require forecasting ability. A thorough knowledge of past fashion trends and an awareness of current industry developments will serve you well in a fashion merchandising career. Now, if you love fashion and everything about it, you already have an edge, but this is not enough. There are a lot facets in the fashion industry that you need to master or at least learn more about to be able to eq...
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Hair Care
Mixed Hair Types and Straight Hair Curly Hair. Over many thousands of years these three groups of people have intermingled. Their descendants now show every imaginable blend of hair type and color. Types of Hair Variations. The way the large bundles of keratin are arranged within each hair shaft. The position of the hair bulb in the hair follicle - in African hair the bulb may lie to the side of the follicle, and so the hair shaft grows out of the follicle at an acute angle. The keratin bundles in the ha...
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Import Guide
Countervailing Duty is levied on the cost of imported goods and is equal to excise duty levied on like goods when manufactured in India. The objective is to ensure that the protection provided by the import duty to domestic industry is not eroded. It is levied at the rate of 10% of the basic rate on all commodities except crude oil and petroleum products, GATT-bound items, gold and silver. This duty can be levied either as a percentage of value of goods or at a specified rate. With effect from Feb. 2...
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Manmade Fibers
Heat protective clothing and helmets. Body armor, competing with PE based fiber products such as Dyneema and Spectra. Asbestos replacement (e.g. braking pads). Hot air filtration fabrics. Tires, newly as Sulfron (sulfur modified Twaron). Mechanical rubber goods reinforcement. Wicks for fire dancing. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Overview of Aramid Fiber. Basic Principles of Acrylic Fiber Production. Major spandex fiber uses. Overview of Nylon Fiber.
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Visual Merchandising
Work Activities of Visual Merchandiser. A Visual Merchandiser creates window and interior displays in shops and department stores. Their chief aim is to maximise sales. Essentially, they are responsible for the 'look' of the store. Displays are changed regularly and themes can be dictated by a number of factors, including:. The seasons of the year. Notable events in the calendar (such as Valentine's Day or Christmas). Current fashions and trends. Maximising the space and layout of the store. Implementing...
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Saree Designing | Saree Draping
Saree Designing Saree Draping. Chikan Embroidery of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow, in Uttar Pradesh, was and is the centre of chikan embroidery, renowned for its timeless grace and its gossamer delicacy, a skill more than 200 years old - - exploited, commercialis but not dead. In fact, the craft is alive and struggling to regain some of its former beauty and elegance. Chikan embroidery is done on fine cotton fabric. Chamba Rumal Embroidery of Himachal. Chamba region has highly skilled craftsmen. Th...
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Sericulture
Here, the shell is loosely spun in layers and has a low silk content. These cocoons are easily overcooked and produce waste. These are abnormally shaped cocoons, which may arise from species variation. This defect may be due to racial characteristics and breeding with mulberry leaves stained with agrochemicals. This defect may happen due to improper mounting frames; these are also called scaffold pressed cocoons. Inside Stained Cocoons Dead Cocoon. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Different Types of Cocoons.
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Textile Designing
The use of the paisley motif in furnishings is attributed to Napoleon's wife Josephine who had gowns, bedcovers and cushions made from the shawls. The French began making copies of the shawls and modified the design, adding long curling tips to the basic cone shape. Arthur Liberty, an Englishman revived the popularity of the paisley design. It became recognised as the Liberty print and was used for home accessories. The paisley pattern is still popular today. Posted by Textilesindepth.com.
