Friday 10 December 2010

Hello blog fans, please speak to me!

PLEASE leave comments on the posts if you like them! I would love for this to be a bit more interactive.

Thanks to everyone who is following me and if you are using the blogthen please email me to say hello, especialy if you are not in the UK I seem to get a lot of hits from the US, how did you find me?

I love seeing that the blog is being viewed but I'd love to know more about who is using it.

Thanks
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4 comments:

  1. Dressmate9 January 2011 at 06:31

    Hi just thought I would say hello. I have looked at your blog before but don't think I posted. I also teach textiles (up to A'level) you have some useful Utube vidoes i will use. I love and hate teaching the theory - love the knowledge - hate the fact that the exam is so awful and feel sorry for my students who are not as obsessed with this factual stuff as I am!

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  2. mrsharetextiles9 January 2011 at 06:47

    Hi there! thanks for commenting. I completely agree about the theory side. Its so hard to get them enthusiastic about it but we do our best! The exam is SO terrible, how they are meant to learn all of it is totally beyond me. Maybe we could swap a few resources? Send me an email and I can forward a few power points I have if you like. They are'nt ravingly exciting but might be useful and keep checking the blog of course!

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  3. Dressmate9 January 2011 at 07:24

    Actually I wanted to ask what you teach for this part of the syllabus.............
    A2 - 'Consumer advice in relation to the performance of different fabrics.' is this just talking about care label stuff - where do we find the 'consumer advice'?

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  4. mrsharetextiles11 January 2011 at 13:19

    God I do loath teaching this sort of thing! but it has to be done, I tend to include it in with several other things;

    Care labelling (I use the HLCC website to do this)

    The difference between 'waterproof' and 'water repellant' Trade descriptions act etc.

    The use of brand names for fabrics and fibres, what these actually MEAN (eg If it says Gore-Tex then its not just got the membrane, the consumers has other gaurantees about quality and construction etc) see the gore tex siht for more info on this.

    General consumer rights stuff (Which? website is good for this, as are all those Dom Littlewood 'know your rights' type of sights)

    Hope this helps but as always you have to cobble it all together from a real range of sources. I'll have another trawl through my video clips, I seem to remember something from New Look about their consumer advice for textiles products.

    Will post anything I think will be of use!

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