This month’s Dream Delivered is Textiles.
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This month’s box is focused on textiles. Textiles are a type of cloth or woven fabric and you interact with them every day. Enjoy!
Oh the Places You Could Go! PAGE 2
What is a Textile?
The Shoe
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Textile Environmental Innovation PAGE 5
Fashion Through the Decades
Bamboo PAGE 6
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Men in Textiles PAGE 9-10
Design Challenge
Glossary
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Did You Know? PAGE 13
Quit With the Jokes PAGE 14
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OH THE PLACES YOU COULD GO:
Buyer: Purchases the raw materials or equipment in order to manufacture the end-goal product.
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Fashion Designer: designs items of clothing for a variety of retailers
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Handcraft Tailor: produces custom-made suits, jackets, and coats for both women and men
Costume Maker: creates, fits, and alters every costume for a theatrical production
Leather Technician: turns raw animal skins into leather, including the process of changing the color
Sales Representative: sells a fashion or textile company’s products, such as clothing and shoes
s Textile Designer: makesigns for de d an s rn tte pa fabric nted woven, knitted, and pri s ial mater
Weaver: uses looms to create woven fabrics
Sewing Machinist: stitch together fabric pattern pieces to create clothing
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What is a Textile?
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Did you know your roof may have textiles in it? So does the soft couch that you sit on.
In the car, your seat belt is also made of textiles.
When organs in our bodies stop working, sometimes doctors can replace them with new organs. For example, if your kidney wasn’t working, a doctor may be able to do surgery and place a new artificial kidney inside you. These artificial organs are made of textiles like polyester!
When you brush and floss your teeth, both products are made of textiles!
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Usually, dying a plain piece of cloth, like a shirt, to a bright color would require lots of water. A company called AirDye uses dyes that transfer from the paper to the fabric using heat! It saves 7-75 gallons of water, and uses 85% less energy for each pound of fabric dyed!
Transferring a print to fabric digitally can also reduce water usage by 95%! They simply use printers instead of water. This also reduces energy by 75%.
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Can you imagine a plastic bottle turning into a pair of pants? Recycled plastic bags and bottles can be melted down to their simplest form! After that, they are used as fibers again in making clothing!
Online shopping tools! Have your parents ever ordered anything online? If they try it on at home sometimes it does not fit and they have to send it back. Websites that help people measure themselves first helps make sure it fits better!
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Attaching a computer to a loom allows the computer to make all the parts of a shirt! Then the shirt just has to have all the pieces pulled together. This is called Direct Panel on Loom!
Did you know that spiders make silk? Silk is a very soft and strong material that is made naturally. The North Face and Spiber, a Japanese company, created a new fiber that looks and feels the same way as silk! By creating it themselves, and not in nature, they are able to control the fiber more.
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Design Challenge
Can you design a shoe that’s cooler than cool? Dream up a great shoe design and have an adult post it on social media using #dreamdelivered. We’ll share our favorites! 11 9
Tie’s aren’t always exciting. Can you design something that is fresh, different and fun? Have an adult post it on social media using #dreamdelivered and we’ll pick a few to share!
Asymmetrical: not having exactly the same sides; one half is not a mirror reflection of the other
Leather: material made from the skin of an animal
Loafer: a shoe with a low, flat heel that one can slide their foot into
Manufacture: to make things on a large scale using machinery
Renewable Resource: any natural resource that can be replaced over time naturally
Saddle: a seat fastened to the back of a horse or animal to sit on while riding, usually made of leather
Shoulder pads: a spongy pad in the shoulder of a shirt or coat to provide a certain shape
Wool: soft, fine hair on the fleece of sheep that can be made into felt and used in making fabric
Air splicer: Bobbin: A machine that connects A cylinder or cone that strands of yarn using holds thread, wire, or compressed air yarn
Bobbin tray system: A system that automatically winds bobbins from spinning machines
Nip-belt system: This machine uses two belts to twist yarn together
Air-jet spinning: A system that brings spinning and winding into one process
Bamboo: A plant in the grass family that is stalky, lives more than two years and is evergreen. Can be made into a textile
Textile: a type of cloth or woven fabric
Vortex spinning: Air spinning and winding that has the fastest speed
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