Toolkit (Materials)

OER: Speciality textile products

Objective and scope

The objective is to select specialty textile products, and design a toolkit for future designers. The main aim is to transfer knowledge about specialty textile products. The creation of a toolkit presenting several materials as case study to explain the speciality textile products. During the creation of the toolkits the designers will learn to select and know the most interesting materials. The aim of these material kits is to be used as a tool to facilitate the understanding and application potentials of textile products. The toolkit is a collection of material samples illustrating their physical properties, technical features and possible application areas through descriptive datasheets, graphs etc. This activity can offer students tools and methods to develop toolkits that will support designers.

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