This document provides an overview of sewing and textile literacy. It discusses how sewing was an important skill taught in home economics to make clothes for families. Understanding textiles was also useful since different materials require specific patterns. The document outlines various areas of sewing and textiles like patterns and fitting, tools, garment construction elements, and emerging areas like computer-aided design. It also discusses occupations in the field and issues like gender norms in clothing.

1. SEWING AND TEXTILE LITERACY

2. UNIT OPENER
 Another of the earliest skills taught to
home economics students, sewing was
significant to the lesson plans because
many women sewed not only their own
clothes, but clothes for their children.
Additionally, this skill came in handy when
clothing needed mending. Because
patterns require certain types of materials,
an understanding of textiles was useful.

3.  Clothing is one
of the primary
needs of man. It
not only fulfils
physical needs,
but social and
psychological
needs as well.

4. CUTTING EDGE
1. What is Sewing and Textile Literacy?
2. What are the areas involve Sewing and
Textile Literacy?
3. What are the types of sewing and
textiles?
4. What are the occupations on Sewing
and Textile Literacy?
5. What are the issues encountered by
Sewing and Textile Literacy?

5. TRIVIA
 Sized patterns didn’t even exist
before 1863.Women used to
disassemble old clothing and
use them as guides to create
new clothing, and the few
patterns out there only came in
one size. Women making
clothing had to adjust the size
of the pattern for everyone,
from babies all the way to
grown men.

6. COMPREHENSIVE BACKGROUND
 Sewing &Textile is one of the most
important subjects of Home
Economics.The sewing and
textiles, major with a fine arts
background may find a career as a
dress or fabric designer.

7.  Sewing is the craft of fastening or
attaching objects using stitches made
with a needle and thread.
 Textile is a flexible material consisting of a
network of natural or artificial fibers (yarn or
thread).Textile has traditionally meant “a
woven fabric.”The term comes from a latin
word” textere” meaning to weave, a textile is
therefore a cloth which is either woven by
hand or machine.

8. Areas under Sewing and Textile
in constructing garments

9. Patterns and fitting
 A pattern can be quite simple; some patterns
are nothing more than a mathematical formula
that the sewer calculates based on the intended
wearer's measurements.Once calculated, the
sewer has the measurements needed to cut the
cloth and sew the garment together. At the
other end of the spectrum are haute couture
fashion designs.

11. Sewing tools
 Sewers working on a simple project need only a
few sewing tools, such as measuring tape,
needle, thread, cloth, and sewing shears. More
complex projects may only need a few more
simple tools to get the job done, but there are
an ever-growing variety of helpful sewing aids
available.

13. Elements of garment sewing
 Seamstresses are provided with the pattern,
with the intent of using as little fabric as
possible. Before or after the pattern pieces are
cut, it is often necessary to mark the pieces to
provide a guide during the sewing process.
Marking methods may include using pens,
pencils, or chalk, tailor's tacks, snips, pins, or
thread tracing, among others.

14.  In addition to the normal lockstitch,
construction stitches include edge-stitching,
under-stitching, stay-stitching and topstitching.
Seam types include the plain seam, zigzag
seam, flat fell seam, French seam and many
others.

15. Clothing technology
 Has evolved to a complicated science weighed
against the labor cost making positive and negative
effects across the globe.

17. Construction of digital
garments
 The development of cloth simulation software such
as CLO3D, Marvelous Designer and Optitex,
seamstresses can now draft patterns on the computer
and visualize clothing designs by using the pattern
creation tools and virtual sewing machines within
these cloth simulation programs.

19. SEWING AND TEXTILE

20. Embroidery
 is the craft of
decorating fabric or
other materials
using a needle to
apply thread or
yarn. Embroidery
may also
incorporate other
materials such as
pearls, beads,
quills, and sequins.

21. Stitch
 is a single turn or
loop of thread, or
yarn. Stitches are
the fundamental
elements of sewing,
knitting,
embroidery, crochet,
and needle lace-
making, whether by
hand or machine.

22. Needlework
 Is decorative sewing
and textile arts
handicrafts. Anything
that uses a needle for
construction can be
called needlework.
Needlework may
include related textile
crafts such as crochet,
worked with a hook,
or tatting, worked
with a shuttle.

23. Needlework Stitches
 is the main thing in the needlework and it is
something similar to embroider and sewing.The
thread stroke on the front side produced by this is
also called stitch.

24. Notion
 In sewing and
haberdashery, notions
are small objects or
accessories, including
items that are sewn or
otherwise attached to
a finished article, such
as buttons, snaps, and
collar stays.

25. Patterns
 The template
from which the
parts of a
garment are
traced onto
fabric before
being cut out
and assembled.

26. Sewing Machine
 is a machine used to sew
fabric and other
materials together with
thread.

27. OCCUPATION
 Draper
 Dressmaker
 Embroiderer
 Tailor

28. BACHELOR DEGREE
 Bachelor ofTechnology in Apparel and Fashion
Technology,
 BS in IndustrialTechnology major in Garment
TradesTechnology
 Bachelor of IndustrialTechnology major in
Garments
 Fashion and Design BS inTextile and Garment
Technology
 Dressmaking.

29. ISSUE ENCOUNTERED

30. Gendered Clothing
 Clothing expectations for men and women are often
based on enduring stereotypes. Historically, women
are often expected to wear what is deemed
traditionally feminine, while Men are often expected
to wear what is deemed traditionally masculine
(Whisner, 1982).As Explained by Eicher and Roach,
“Dress is both a repository of meanings regarding
gender roles and a vehicle for perpetuating or
rendering changes in gender roles” (Eicher & Roach,
1992, p. 12).

31. Functionality Versus
Decoration
 This concept is rooted in time periods when women
did not work, and the purpose of their dress was to
appeal to men. Modern popular female fashion is also
driven by design rather than practicality, and the focus
is often on making the wearer appear more attractive,
rather than serving a purpose or feeling comfortable.
This can be exemplified in the absence of pockets or
inclusion of “fake pockets” in women’s clothing.
Historically, pockets were absent from women’s
clothing because their husbands were expected to
carry money and belongings. During World War II,
when women re-entered the workforce while men
were on the front lines, pockets re-emerged in female
fashion.