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Rachel: Robin, what kind of questions do students bring you? And what do you do to help them?
Robin: Let's say a student is be researching any number of laws regarding clothing manufacturing . We would go into the laws and legislation files and pull out the files that are relative to the project that they're working on.
Or a textile design student could come in and look for ideas. Maybe there's a specific design they want to put on their textile.
Maybe it's a design project for a film, and a student needs to do a Hawaiian print. It's not a design style that's popular right now, but we have picture files that are specifically designed to help a student working on a project like that.
They could go into the nature files and find Hawaiian floral prints and get a whole host of Hawaiian florals and ideas on how to use those florals in a print. Let's say they want to do something with an animal on it -- a dolphin print - we have a whole file full of pictures of dolphins. If they want to do a Holiday print, there's a whole set of files on pictures from various holidays.
So, the students can come in, look at the files, get an idea of what the specific thing looks like and go from there. They can copy anything out of those files. They can't take the actual thing with them but they can copy them. That goes not only for the textile files but also any of the other files in the room.
One of the other projects that the files are used for is when the manufacturing students are doing costing reports or spec reports. That means they have to have all of the elements of the garment in hand. And, they have to have pictures of each element. There are pictures of different trimmings and findings and actual trimmings and findings that they can come take a picture of. How much is it going to cost per piece, how much is it going to cost for the whole run? That's another project I might help with.
This room also holds the costume library file catalogue. Any student can come in here and go through the file catalogue. They can pull files or write down a number of costume numbers and ask for a group of costumes to be pulled from the costume library.
Let's say a student is working on a project that involves 1940's suits. That student can say, I would like to see a group of 1940's suits. I want to know how they're designed and how they were made. Then I go into the costume collection and pull the real thing - maybe eight to ten suits. Then a student can see firsthand how they were made and how they were designed. They can see how that suit was put together. Once they see what the real thing looks like, they know what to do for a reproduction or they can get ideas for their own designs.
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