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SHORT COURSES LISOF’s part-time short courses are a viable alternative to full-time study and could be the beginning of your journey into the fascinating worlds of fashion and beauty. There are short courses in Fashion Photography, Garment Construction, Pattern Design, Fashion Design, Make-up and Adobe® Illustrator & Photoshop. They are presented at our campus in Johannesburg over a period of 20 Saturday mornings.
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GARMENT
CONSTRUCTION SHORT COURSE
After successful completion of the Garment Construction short course you’ll be able to make a range of basic items of apparel and understand the basic principles that underscore garment construction. The course will give you the grounding to continue developing your garement construction knowledge and skills on your own, perhaps leading to an exciting new career. LISOF and its programmes are accredited by the Council on Higher Education and registered on the South African Qualifications Authority’s National Qualifications Framework (NQF).
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The part-time Garment Construction short course curriculum includes the following: Unit 1: Introduction. Students are taught
about basic sewing equipment and how to use it correctly. Learn about fabrics, including warp, weft, bias and selvage, and basic pattern information and methods of laying out, marking, pinning and cutting fabric.
Unit 2: Machines and Sewing. Learn how to correctly identify the domestic sewing machine’s components. You’ll be guided through step-bystep methods for using both domestic sewing machines and overlockers. You’ll be coached through practical manoeuvring exercises; open and closed straight seams; edge stitching; foot stitching; and twin stitching and overlocking finishes. Unit 3: Faced Edges, Corners, Curves and Darts. You’ll be introduced to fusible interlining and the operations of the fusing press and coached through straight-faced edges; faced inner and outer corners; corner and curved panel seams; and single-ended and double-ended darts. Unit 4: Pressed Pleats and Yokes. Students
are introduced to and guided in the preparation of written orders of construction. Various skills around pleat construction are also introduced and developed, as well as effective machine-finished hemming techniques.
Unit 5: A Skirt. Learn how to read a pattern
set and prepare a more complex order of construction. You’ll be guided in the recognition of pattern parts in order to assemble a more complex sample and learn how to apply fusible interlining to a waistband. You’ll also be taught fold-on-fold machine stitched hem finishing, patch-pocket template execution and finishing and attachment of the patch-pocket to the garment.
Unit 6: Gathered Skirt. Learn to make
machine buttonholes and gathers using a number of gathering methods. Learn about gathering stitch length and drawing up excess fabric; built on facings; stitching on buttons; hand felled hems; and method #2 of waistband attachment.
Unit 7: Pockets, Belt loops and Drawstrings. You’ll be coached in the following: safari pocket; bellow pocket; side-seam insert pocket; curved insert pocket with separate facings; angled insert pocket with decorative facings; belt loops; drawstrings and casings. Unit 8: Collars and Front Finishes. Students are coached in techniques for the Mandarin collar without facings and the Bowling collar with neck facings. Unit 9: Shirt Cuff and Bound Opening. Learn bias cutting and binding methods as well as shirt cuff finishes and bound slit openings.
Unit 10: Bodice with Set-in Sleeve and Collar. Learn how to set a sleeve and construct a bodice. Techniques include constructing the princess panel line, darts, bowling collar, front and back facings, machine topstitched hem, and set-in sleeve with turn-up hem finish. Students are also trained to use the free arm of a domestic sewing machine.
Unit 11: Zip Openings. Learn to attach and use the correct zip feet on a domestic sewing machine and be trained to insert an invisible zip, a lapped zip and a centred zip.
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CRITERIA SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU WANT TO BE AND WE WILL HELP YOU GET THERE. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN? The part-time Garment Construction short course presents material that straddles NQF Levels 4 and 5 and is therefore accessible to high school students (Grade 10 or 16 years). However, it is better suited to post-high school (Grade 12) and adult students.
If you’re not sure if you qualify to apply, contact our student admissions department on 08611 LISOF (54763) or email
[email protected]
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[OTHER] IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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You’ll need your own domestic sewing machine and basic sewing consumables (fabric, cottons, scissors, straight pins etc.
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The language of recruitment, admission, administration, facilitation, learning and assessment at LISOF is English.
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Bursaries are not available for short courses.
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Since LISOF’s full-time programmes are accredited by the Council on Higher Education, these part-time short courses, drawn from the full-time curricula, enjoy the same accreditation status. However, they are not and cannot be registered on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF).
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You will receive a Certificate of Completion upon delivery of the prescribed tasks (assessment events). Tasks (assessment events) must meet minimum requirements according to the prescribed criteria and must be conducted according to LISOF’s general assessment policies.
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The Garment Construction short course does not carry international recognition. The recognition that you gain is from the body of work that you produce during the course.
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International students are required to secure a study permit to study and reside legally in South Africa before applying to study at LISOF.
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