Module manager: Lindsey Waterton Taylor
Email: L.W.Taylor@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2026/27
| TEXT1355 | Sustainable Textile Manufacturing and Industry |
TEXT1355
This module is not approved as a discovery module
You will be introduced to advanced structures that form woven and knitted fabrics. You will deepen your understanding of fabric construction from surface appearance to inherent performance characteristics and suitability to textile products. You will acquire knowledge of yarn types, during the practical component of the module, and their suitability for manufacturing technologies, aligned to weaving and knitting. Advanced knowledge of manufacturing/production principles acquired through applying theory to explorative experimentations, alongside digital tools to create and generate specifications for production/manufacture; this will enable you to align the fabric making particulars to actual technology parameters to put in practice commercial specifications. This module provides the theory and skillset required when considering more innovative sustainable manufacturing possibilities in the field of woven and knitted textiles for a variety of end textile products.
This module aims to deepen the basic knowledge of woven and knitted fabrics, and associated technologies, and software towards commercial production/manufacturing.
The objectives of the module are to:
1. Enhance the students’ knowledge and skills in the construction of woven and knitted textiles by introducing advanced structures and manufacturing technologies.
2. Underpin the students understanding and broader knowledge of woven and knitted structure characteristics and how these can be impacted, enhanced, altered through the decisions made on yarn choice and technology parameters for their production/manufacture.
3. To introduce technology innovations and design-engineering of structures towards sustainable production/manufacture of both woven and knitted textiles.
4. To support the students developing manufacturing language, terminologies associated to the manufacture of woven and knitted textiles.
Learning activities include lectures, interactive practical workshops, independent practical workshops with technical support. The lectures provide the theory and contextualisation of woven and knitted textile manufacturing, and the interactive practical workshops will allow students to apply their learning through a series of digital and physical outputs.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
LO1. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of woven and knitted textiles for fabric manufacture. Evidenced, but not exclusive to, using technical terminology, and practical competencies of techniques, structures, technologies, and digital tools applicable to advanced constructed textile production/manufacture.
LO2. Demonstrate an ability to evaluate and reflect upon advanced knowledge of weaving and knitting constructed textiles in a professional presentation of technical accomplishments that includes both digital and physical formats.
LO3. Apply knowledge and evaluative processes, and reflections through independent engagement with techniques and technologies to evidence acquisition of advanced knowledge.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
SLO4. Demonstrate digital creation, problem solving via textile specifications for fabric manufacture.
SLO5. Demonstrate time management, planning and utilising resources and information searching.
SLO6. Evidence the ability to work autonomously when given clearly defined tasks inclusive of commercial awareness, research skills and problem solving.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Supervision | 2 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Lecture | 11 | 1 | 11 |
| Practical | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| Seminar | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Private study hours | 177 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 23 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
The x2 1 hour seminars, and mid-way point x2 30 minute 1-2-1 formative feedback sessions provide opportunity for students to receive feedback.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Technical Portfolio | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
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Last updated: 30/04/2026
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