What Is Denim?
Stephanie Steele
Thursday, 1 April 2021
Before you get started in designing your denim garments, whether for a solely denim label or just as a few pieces, you really ought to understand what denim is. This will help you in sourcing, in working with factories and feeling confident that your product will meet your customers' expectation.
In this lesson you will learn:
- What denim fabric is
- How denim is made
- Sustainable fibres for producing denim fabric
- An overview of the denim production stages from yarn to fabric
- Global denim mills and their sustainable approaches
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How Are Jeans Made?
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Now that you have mastered what denim fabric is, you might be starting to design your silhouette. But what makes a staple pair of jeans that your customer will want to use everyday? In this lesson we look at the basic construction of a five-pocket jean and some links to external lessons from Transformers Education where you can learn more about research, understanding your customer, creating tech packs and what quality design actually is.
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