NZQA registered unit standard
Title
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Demonstrate knowledge of seaming and finishing in the industrial textile fabrication industry
Level 3 Credits 2
Purpose This theory-based unit standard is for people who work in the industrial textile fabrication industry. People credited with this unit standard are able to demonstrate knowledge of: seaming; and finishing work, in the industrial textile fabrication industry.
Classification Industrial Textile Fabrication > Industrial Textile Fabrication
Core Skills
Available grade Achieved
Explanatory notes
1 Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992.
2 Definition
Industry refer to those practices and procedures commonly used as standard procedures to produce items of acceptable merchantable quality in the industrial textile fabrication industry.
3 Seaming and finishing and/or sewing related textbooks can be sourced from a local book retailer, school or polytechnic library, or the public library lending service; useful websites include but are not limited to Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com
; Capital
Books http://www.capitalbooks.co.nz
; local public library websites; Techbooks Ltd http://www.techbooks.co.nz
; Whitcoulls http://www.whitcoulls.co.nz
.
Outcome 1
Demonstrate knowledge of seaming in the industrial textile fabrication industry.
Evidence requirements
1.1 Seam types and their uses are described in accordance with textbook descriptions and industry requirements.
Range plain single seam, top sewn seam, double top sewn seam, run and fell seam, folded overlap seam, flat seam, round seam.
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Seaming procedures are described in accordance with textbook descriptions.
Range plain single seam, top sewn seam, double top sewn seam, run and fell seam, folded overlap seam, flat seam, round seam.
1.3 Procedures and reasons for adding reinforcements to seams are described in accordance with textbook descriptions and industry requirements.
Outcome 2
Demonstrate knowledge of finishing work in the industrial textile fabrication industry.
Evidence requirements
2.1 Hemming is described in accordance with textbook description.
Range single hem on selvedge edge, double turned hem.
2.2
2.3
Bias binding is described in accordance with textbook description.
Procedures for attaching ropes are described in accordance with textbook descriptions and industry requirements.
Range includes but is not limited to – slip knots, lashing whipping; splicing
– eye splice, back splice, short splice, long splice.
Replacement information This unit standard, unit standard 23482, unit standard
23483, and unit standard 23484 replaced unit standard
1316.
Planned review date 31 December 2019
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process Version Date Last Date for Assessment
Registration 1 26 March 2007 N/A
Rollover and
Revision
2 27 January 2015 N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference 0014
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
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NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation
(Incorporated)
SSB Code 101542
© New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2015

NZQA registered unit standard
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
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Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR 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 the NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation (Incorporated) (MITO) info@mito.org.nz
if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation
(Incorporated)
SSB Code 101542
© New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2015