BHT701

Application of Computer in Color Matching & Textile Design

L-T-P3-0-0 Credits3 Session2025-26 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

B.Tech Handloom & Textile Technology · Sem 7 (Core)

Syllabus

5 units · 45 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1

9 hrs

Colour Theory- Introduction, colour physics, sources and types of illumination, various colour theories, additive-subtractive mixing, and colour specification systems. Munsell system, colour difference, Degree of Metamerism, colour order system, colour difference formulae, Anatomy of a colour measuring Instrument, Beer – Lambert law and Kubelka – Munk theory.

Unit2

Unit 2

9 hrs

Instrumentation of colour matching and assessment- Specular and diffusion reflectance, measurement of reflectance, Instruments for colour matching, , CCM software, CIE LAB color space, Application to textiles- Preparation of sample calibration, reflectance spectra of sample, Prediction of the recipes by computer and verification of result- Pass/Fail system.

Unit3

Unit 3

9 hrs

Introduction of computer application in textile designing – fundamentals- different methods and advantages of CATD. Basics of computer designing, importance of CATD. Decorative effect using pattern and design theory, Application of CAD for textiles.

Unit4

Unit 4

9 hrs

Transfer of designs to point paper- various steps in transferring designs from sketch to point paper. Design calculation as per given jacquard and harness set – pixel – resolution and its relation with threads and threads per inch. Vector and raster images – X and Y in designing – different drawing tools.

Unit5

Unit 5

9 hrs

Motif Scanning – scanning parameters – colours and attributes, editing tools used for graph making – scaling, rotating, reversing, dropping. Application CATD Softwares - Basic Operations, Drawing Operations, Working With Colors, Working With Contours, Using Layers, Transform Tools, Brushes, Using Filters, Cleaning Up the Picture. Outcomes

Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Explain about the concept of different colour theories.
  2. CO2Apply the applications in CCM software.
  3. CO3Explainthe fundamentals of CATD.
  4. CO4Creation of design bytransferring on to point paper.
  5. CO5Apply the different tools for creating the designs by CATD.

Text Book

  1. A.D. Sule, “Computer Color Analysis: Textile Application”, New Age International Publication, 2008.
  2. Shalini S. Patwardhan., “Instrumental Colour Matching for Textiles”, Wool Research Association Publication, Bombay,1977
  3. Shalini Patwadhan, ComputerAidedTextileDesigning&Clothingby;Colour Publications Pvt. Ltd.
  4. WinifredAldrich, CADinclothingandTextiles,JohnWiley&Sons SecondEdition

References

  1. Lisa Cianci, Colour Theory: Understanding and Working with Colour, RMIT Open Press, https://rmit.pressbooks.pub/colourtheory1 \
  2. David S. Lee Mastering CAD Textile, Kindle edition.
  3. Fredrick L chipkin Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design.
  4. W. Aldrich CAD in clothing and textiles.
  5. A magazine on Computer in the World of Textiles.
  6. Ned Graphics.
  7. Corel and Photoshop.
  8. Wacom Digitizer with Print Software.

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 4, 5 of the original AKTU PDF.

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