Description
Textile product developers innovate and perform product design of apparel textiles, home textiles, and technical textiles (e.g. agriculture, safety, construction, medicine, mobile tech, environmental protection, sports, etc.). They apply scientific and technical principles to develop innovative textile products.
EssentialOptional
Theoretical Knowledge
health and safety in the textile industrytextile technologiesresearch and development in textilestextile marketing techniqueschallenging issues in the textile industrynonwoven machine technologytextile printing technologyproperties of textile materialsportfolio management in textile manufacturingbraiding technologytextile chemistrytextile finishing technologyknitting machine technology
Practical Skills
maintain work standardsdistinguish fabricsuse textile technique for hand-made productsdesign warp knit fabricsdesign weft knitted fabricsdesign woven fabricsconduct textile testing operationsdevelop specifications of technical textilesdistinguish accessoriesdraw sketches to develop textile articles using softwaresuse textile finishing machine technologiesdecorate textile articlesmeasure yarn countdraw sketches to develop textile articlescheck quality of products in textile production lineevaluate textile characteristicsuse weaving machine technologiesuse warp knitting technologiesmanufacture braided productsdevelop textile colouring recipesfinish processing of man-made fibrestest physical properties of textilesuse warp preparation technologiescontrol textile process