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Mend faults in woven fabric
Level
3
Credits
5
Purpose
This unit standard is for people working in the weaving industry. People
credited with this unit standard are able to: mend woven fabric by removing
weaving faults, yarn faults and imperfections; and maintain records.
Subfield
Textiles Manufacture
Domain
Weaving
Status
Registered
Status date
3 April 1995
Date version published
21 May 2010
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Competenz
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
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This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
Plant safety practices comply with Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 and
workplace procedures.
2
Workplace productivity and quality requirements will be met.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Demonstrate knowledge of fabric faults.
Range
pattern, colour, draft, lifts, sley, double picks, broken picks, missing picks,
floating weft, floating warp, snarls, loops, cut weft, cut warp, selvedge, thick
yarn, thin yarn, oil or grease, contamination, tight warp, reed marks, slack warp
ends, slack weft, slubs, over twisted yarn, undertwisted yarn, streaky dyeing,
wrong reverse, headle shaft down and other abnormalities.
Performance criteria
1.1
Fabric is inspected according to workplace procedure and faults identified.
1.2
Mending techniques are demonstrated to workplace standards.
Range
techniques used in workplace, weave structure maintained,
tension, yarns match, needle size, mending on correct side.
Element 2
Locate faults and carry out mending procedures.
Performance criteria
2.1
Marked and unmarked faults are identified.
2.2
Mending technique conforms to workplace practice for fault being mended.
2.3
Fault is mended to workplace standard.
2.4
Records are maintained according to workplace requirement.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
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Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Competenz info@competenz.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the
content of this unit standard.
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