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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Pattern Making"”.
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The need for pattern-making apprentices in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, area
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We Are not Designers: Pattern making and garment making as practices of co-design for social change
… design, and more specifically, the practices of making patterns and garments, can give them tools to enhance their agency and build community resilience. This research aimed to explore how pattern making and garment making can be used to foster social change with a group of women from the …
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Decorator or narrator: A contextualisation of Slavic and Australian pattern making and its relationship to my painting practice
In this thesis, I will examine pattern making in art practice from two cultural perceptions, Slavic and Australian. Existing differences between the two cultural backgrounds will be used to debate how pattern is understood by the viewer or practiced by an artist in a particular chosen environment. …
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Fabrication of an 1897 Herreshoff marine steam engine
… from MIT's Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Pattern making options, casting, sand types and machining practices were explored and analyzed. Furthermore, a blueprint for a single-semester course in advanced fabrication methods for MIT 2.007 Senior Undergraduate Apprentices was proposed.
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From art to artefact: meaning-making processes across the three major subjects in a Diploma in Fashion
… In particular the technical side, namely pattern making and garment construction have not received enough attention. Over the years I have found the same difficulties among students as they negotiate the three main subjects. Their encounter with the technical subjects, presents particular …
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Parallel merge for many-core architectures
… include coordinating the memory access pattern, making full use of the shared memory and reducing the thread divergence. Our implementation achieves up to 10x and 40x speedup on Titan-Z and GTX 980 GPU respectively compared to thrust merge implementation.
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Level of challenge and task persistence: a study of children in a cognitive activity
… activity. Twenty-eight children undertook a pattern-making task with beads of different colors and shapes under three conditions. In the assigned-easy condition the children were given only the easiest patterns; in the assigned-difficult condition they were given the most difficult patterns; …
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The Effects of Known PCR Inhibitors on Droplet Digital PCR Performance
… the amplitude of normal droplets in a scattered pattern, making the results unusable. These findings suggest that ddPCR may prove to be a more robust technique for inhibited forensic samples in some but not all settings.
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The influence of woven stretch fabric properties on pattern design.
Conventional pattern construction and pattern making methods typically require the size measurements of a range of standard mannequins or human bodies in order to construct the varying pattern blocks for garment design. These various methods and skills, in the fashion industry, factory or studio …
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The development of an educational computer aided design system for garment manufacture
… aided design (CAD) system for the design of flat patterns for female clothing has been developed specifically for use in an Educational environment. This Pattern Making System (PMS) has been developed using a commercial computer aided design software system, CADDS 4X, originally marketed for …
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The development of a method for determining the best-fit shape for the crotch seam of men's pants
… the best fit possible, but measurement, and pattern making techniques currently available may not be sufficient to satisfy the fit needs of many of their customers. The purpose of this research was to develop a method for determining the best-fit shape for the crotch seam of men's pants. A …
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Patterns as Documents and Drawings: An artistic exploration of tailoring patterns as historical documents and drawings abstracting the human form. An analysis from the perspective of a creative art practitioner
… proposes an interpretive reading of tailoring patterns as informative documents and inspiring drawings in their own right. Conventionally, patterns are treated only as a means to an end, aiding garment production. It is rare for patterns to be analysed by contemporary dress historians for their …
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An interdisciplinary study of an aesthetic particularism: the ‘Split representation in the Art of Asia and America’
… the widely acknowledged connections between the pattern making habits amongst certain hunter-gatherers tribes with the taking of entheogenic drugs during rituals, with the Shipibo people from the Peruvian Amazonia and their ritualistic use of Ayahuasca as a case study. I continue by providing …