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Pumpkin Interactive is the UK’s leading producer of Textiles Technology DVD educational resources. Our aim is to provide innovative and exciting examples of the very latest industrial textile practices and processes from around the world. Our titles cover some of the hottest topics in textiles – the 6Rs, sustainable design, smart textiles, ethical textile design, globalisation and new technologies. 

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Textiles: Industrial Finishing Processes

DVD: PAL
DUR: 30 mins
YEAR: 2011 / KS 3-5
Product Code: FINTEX
Price: £49.00

This resource looks at the different types of industrial finishes available and their applications. It explores the reasons for finishing, and when and why different processes might be used. It then goes on to look at how the range of finishes now available is creating ever more technical materials, enhancing the role of textiles in today's society. The DVD provides examples of a variety of chemical and physical finishes and their applications.


Endorsement/Recommendation

Included on Edexcel's recommended resources list 

Recommended by AQA in their resources list for both their GCSE and GCE D&T Textiles specifications

Testimonials

"Textiles: Industrial Finishing Processes is brilliant. I use the entire set of Pumpkin Textile DVDs from Year 9 where we dip in and out, to all the examination groups I teach. I find the activities and the full scripts are a really good tool to assist learning and have developed some detailed revision tasks around them."

Jane Dalley,
Head of Textiles, The Redmaids' School, Bristol


Suggested exam board specification links

AQA

   
GCSE D&T Textiles
GCE D&T Product Design (Textiles)
     

Edexcel

   
GCSE D&T Textiles
     

OCR

   
GCSE   D&T Textiles
     

WJEC

   
GCSE D&T Textiles

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Ethical Textiles