Product Categories
One course per kind of garment. A jean, a sock, and a down jacket are made, costed, and inspected by different rules.
After this track you can
You can cost, plan, and inspect a garment by the rules of its own category, and recognise when a technique you learned on one product will quietly fail on another.
7 courses · 13 h 50 min
- 21.1Denim and Jeans: the Garment is Finished After It is SewnPractitioner6 lessons · 2 h 20 minYou take the category where the sewing line does not make the product. You follow one jeans order through the six places a technique learned on knitted tops quietly fails: the approval order, the post-wash spec, the size set, the cloth-against-recipe trade, the laundry's minimums, and the defects that are the product.
- 21.2Knitwear and Sweaters: the Garment That Is Not CutPractitioner6 lessons · 2 h 10 minYou follow one order for 18,000 lambswool sweaters through every rule that cut-and-sew teaches wrongly. A gauge is a fleet, not a setting. A cost sheet is built from yarn weight, not from fabric consumption. Linking is counted in loops. And a blocking board can hide a knitting error until the customer's first wash.
- 21.3Socks and HosieryPractitioner7 lessons · 2 hYou follow one sock order from the knitting cylinder to the five-pack. You see why the machine, not the pattern, decides which sizes can exist. You see how a cost sheet carrying five different denominators goes wrong. You cost the toe seam three ways. You see why boarding, not measuring, sets the size. And you see how one defective sock multiplies into a failed pack.
- 21.4Outerwear, Down and Technical AssemblyPractitioner6 lessons · 2 hYou follow one down parka from the fill-power certificate to the final inspection. You see why the most expensive material in the garment is bought by weight and moves with the weather. You see why a five-millimetre wall costs USD 45,998. And why the one thing you cannot see is the one thing you are paying for.
- 21.5Activewear, Seamless and Performance: When the Fabric Is the ProductPractitioner6 lessons · 1 h 50 minYou follow one activewear order through. You see why cutting elastane content raises the price, and why a recovery test measured after one wash predicts nothing. You see how a seamless machine writes the size range, and what a bonded seam really costs. You see why a comfort comment changed every measurement. And you meet the claims that are true flat and false on a body.
- 21.6Lingerie, Swim and Fine AssemblyPractitioner6 lessons · 1 h 40 minYou follow one moulded bra and one swimsuit all the way through. Twenty-four components sit on twenty-four clocks. The size system has two axes. The tolerances are in millimetres. On the cost sheet, cloth is the minority line. You see the chemistry a swim garment has to survive. And you meet the defect the wearer feels and the inspector cannot see.
- 21.7Uniforms, Workwear and PPEPractitioner6 lessons · 1 h 50 minYou follow one three-year uniform and PPE contract from tender to renewal. You see the whole-life price that beat a cheaper garment, and a workforce in which nobody is average. You meet two materials that each do nothing at the other's time of day, a substitution that re-opened a certificate, and the margin one laundry depot took.
Track exam
12 questions drawn from a larger bank, across the courses in this track, passed at 70%. 3 attempts, then it locks for 7 days. It is worth finishing the courses first.
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