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• Figure out Options and tools that effect the economics of a design?
Textile designer activities
• Deciding what to design.
• Producing original design ideas.
• Developing design ideas
• Supervising the production of original fabric samples and keeping suitable records.
• Submitting samples to customers, to company or to company selection systems.
• Adapting and modifying designs from sketches or fabrics submitted by customers
(or obtained from within the firm or group) to meet a price or other restriction.
• Controlling the production of sample ranges with the customer’s
• Establishing production specifications.
• Ensuring the production of sample ranges by certain agreed dates.
• Working within an agreed departmental budget.
• Controlling the supply of materials and equipment for design and sampling.
All textile designers will certainly be involved in some of these and should have an
understanding of all of them.