Gems And Jewellery Design

What is jewellery?
Jewellery (British English) or jewelry (American English) consists of small decorative items
worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants,
bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes, and the term
is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example. For many centuries
metal, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery, but
other materials such as shells and other plant materials may be used. It is one of the oldest
type of archaeological artefact – with 100,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells
thought to be the oldest known jewellery. The basic forms of jewellery vary between
cultures but are often extremely long-lived; in European cultures the most common forms
of jewellery listed above have persisted since ancient times, while other forms such as
adornments for the nose or ankle, important in other cultures, are much less common.

Fashion Design

What is Fashion?
Fashion is a popular style, especially in clothing, footwear, lifestyle products, accessories,
makeup, hairstyle and body. Fashion is a distinctive and often constant trend in the style in
which a person dresses. It is the prevailing styles in behaviour and the newest creations of
designers, technologists, engineers, and design managers. Because the more technical term
costume is regularly linked to the term "fashion", the use of the former has been relegated
to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while "fashion" generally means
clothing, including the study of it. Although aspects of fashion can be feminine or
masculine, some trends are androgynous.

Textile Design
What is textile?
A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or
thread). Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, hemp, or other materials
to produce long strands. Textiles are formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, or
felting. The related words fabric and cloth are often used in textile assembly trades (such as
tailoring and dressmaking) as synonyms for textile. However, there are subtle differences in
these terms in specialized usage. A textile is any material made of interlacing fibres, including
carpeting and geotextiles. A fabric is a material made through weaving, knitting, spreading,
crocheting, or bonding that may be used in production of further goods (garments, etc.). Cloth
may be used synonymously with fabric but is often a piece of fabric that has been processed.

Fashion Marketing And Merchandising

What is Fashion marketing?

The field of fashion marketing and merchandising covers a wide variety of positions. You could
work as a fashion buyer, customer service representative, retail store owner, visual merchandiser,
retail manager, manufacturer's representative, operations manager, marketer, advertiser, and
more. Merchandising, within fashion retail, refers specifically to the stock planning,
management, and control process. This position requires well-developed quantitative skills, and
natural ability to discover trends, meaning relationships and interrelationships among standard
sales and stock figures.

Leather Accessories And Footwear Design

What is Leather?
Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhides, mostly cattle hide.
It can be produced at manufacturing scales ranging from cottage industry to heavy industry.
Leather is used to make various goods, including clothing, accessories, and footwear etc. It is
produced in a wide variety of types and styles, decorated by a wide range of techniques.

Furniture Design And Manufacture

What is furniture design?
Furniture refers to movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating
(e.g., chairs, stools, and sofas), eating (tables), and sleeping (e.g., beds). Furniture is also used to
hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground, such as
tables and desks), or to store things (e.g., cupboards and shelves). Furniture can be a product of
design and is considered a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's functional role, it can
serve a symbolic or religious purpose. It can be made from many materials, including metal,
plastic, and wood. Furniture can be made using a variety of woodworking joints which often
reflect the local culture.

Ceramics And Glass Design

What is Ceramics?
A ceramic material is an inorganic, non-metallic, often crystalline oxide, nitride or carbide
material. Some elements, such as carbon or silicon, may be considered ceramics. Ceramic
materials are brittle, hard, strong in compression, weak in shearing and tension. It is an inorganic
compound, non-metallic, solid material comprising metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms
primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds. This article gives an overview of ceramic materials
from the point of view of materials science.