Profession textile sourcing merchandiser
Textile sourcing merchandisers organise efforts for textile producers from fibre to final products.
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Personality Type
- Enterprising / Conventional
- Conventional / Enterprising
Knowledge
- Challenging issues in the textile industry
The efficiency aims and environmental issues posed by challenges in the textile industry.
- Textile marketing techniques
Creating, communicating and delivering value to customers of textile products and services.
- Portfolio management in textile manufacturing
The process of managing teams and projects in textile and clothing product development.
- Textile printing technology
Addition of colour partially, according to the designed pattern, onto textile based materials. Processes for adding coloured patterns onto textile materials using printing machines and techniques (rotary of flat bed screen printing or others, heat transfer, inkjet, etc.).
- Properties of fabrics
The influence of chemical composition and molecular arrangement of yarn and fibre properties and fabric structure on the physical properties of textile fabrics; the different fibre types, their physical and chemical characteristics and different material characteristics; the materials used in different processes and the effect on materials as they are processed.
- Textile technologies
Textile technologies to design, manufacture and evaluate the properties of textiles.
Skills
- Distinguish fabrics
Distinguish fabrics in order to determine differences among them. Evaluate fabrics based on their characteristics and their application in wearing apparel manufacturing.
- Measure yarn count
Be able to measure yarn length and mass to assess fineness of roving, sliver and yarn in different measuring systems.Also able to convert into the various numbering system such as tex, Nm, Ne, denier, etc.
- Distinguish accessories
Distinguish accessories in order to determine differences among them. Evaluate accessories based on their characteristics and their application in wearing apparel manufacturing.