Textile Design & Colour

History of textile design, Introduction to Woven, Printed, embroidered & painted textile designs, Textile printing techniques: direct, indirect, resist and discharge. Colour forecasting

Light and colour phenomena, physical basis of colour, Emission & absorption theory of light, Colour vision and light theory of colours, Complementary colours, Chromatic circle, Pigment theory of colours, Brewster circle, Attributes of the primary & secondary colours

Colour measurement, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary & compound colours, Biren’s triangle, Modification of colours, Coloured greys, Colours in combination, Colour contrast, contrast in hue, contrast of tone, colour harmony, Relative spaces occupied by colours, divisional colours, Application of colours, Mixed colour effect,.

Composition of designs, Condition to be observed during ornamentation of fabrics, Mode shade, Harmony of succession, gradation of hue, Different stages of colouring of textile materials, Bases of Textile design, One third and one fourth drop design, Half drop and drop reverse design.

• Unit repeating design, Geometric ornamentation, Construction of symmetrical designs, Stripe and check effect designs, Sari border / vertical border design, Factor affecting the woven designs, reversing inclined figure, Diamond, Ogee, & diagonal waved line base, applications of colours. Art sheet based question covering all above units
• Grand total Lectures required = 36