Skills and Education Group Awards · RQF Level 3
SEG Awards ABC Level 3 Diploma In Textile Design and Manufacture
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits37
- Guided learning280 hours
- Units in this qualification23
Awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Skills and Education Group Awards registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Aspects of Design within the Textile IndustryReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the sector market and how trends are predicted
- Communicate ideas and technical information through different media
- Select and use a wide range of media to produce a range of fashion illustrations
Buying including import/export within the textile industryReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand cost principles and its application to the textile industry
- Research outsourced manufacturing capabilities using various methods
- Evaluate the costs and logistics of outsourced production
- Know about social and cultural diversity of differing locations
- Understand the legal requirements of importing and exporting products
- Maintain quality control procedures for outsourced products and services
Carpet manufacturing processesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and processes involved in carpet manufacture
- Identify and analyse faults
- Understand the electrical and pneumatic requirements of machinery used in the production of carpets
- Understand how to maintain machines used to produce narrow fabrics
Fibre and Yarn ProcessingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the properties of a textile yarn
- Know about yarn production systems
- Identify and analyse faults
- Understand the electrical and pneumatic requirements of machinery used in textile production
- Understand how to maintain machines used in textile production
General Textile TechnologyReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know about global textile production and trends.
- Know about fibre types and their properties.
- Know about the general principles and production processes of fibre and yarn manufacture.
- Know about the post-yarn spinning process.
- Know about the different processes of fabric production used in the textile industry
- Know about finishing and dying processes
- Know about garment production.
- Know about technical textiles.
- Know about basic production planning methods
Knitted fabric designReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of knitted fabric design and development from initial idea to finished product
- Understand the principles of technical drafting
- Use CAD techniques in knitted fabric design processes
- Understand fabric analysis techniques
- Understand the processes involved in lace, weft and warp knitting production
Knitwear and Hosiery Design and Make-upReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of design for knitwear and hosiery
- Understand the principles and processes of developing knitted products
- Understand the processes involved in knitwear and knitted product manufacture
Leading teams within Textile TechnologiesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the team leadership role
- Understand the importance and principles of team development
- Understand the role of meetings within an organisation
Manage information for action within the textile industryReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance to a team leader of gathering all types
- Understand the importance of effectively communicating the types of information and advice which other people may require
- Understand the factors to be considered when organising, leading and recording outcomes of meetings
Managing Quality Standards: Textile ProductionReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements of quality control systems
- Know about quality testing
- Perform quality tests.
Managing health and safety and employment rights and responsibilities within the textile industryReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the health and safety requirements for the textile sector
- Carry out a risk assessment within the textile sector
- Understand the career progression routes available within the textile sector.
- Know about your statutory rights in employment
- Know about the expectations and relevant procedures in the textile sector
- Obtain further information about emplyment issues
Managing own relationships within textile productionReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to communicate with their colleagues within the workplace
- Minimise disruption in the workplace and deal with any problems
- Understand the role of an individual in fulfilling the aims of an organisation
- Undertake professional self development
- Make decisions, manage their objectives and activities efficiently
- Manage their resources in the workplace
Narrow fabric manufactureReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and processes involved in narrow fabric manufacture
- Identify and analyse faults
- Understand the electrical and pneumatic requirements of machinery used in the production of narrow fabrics
- Understand how to maintain machines used to produce narrow fabrics
Non woven fabric productionReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and processes involved in producing non- wovens
- Identify and analyse faults
- Understand the electrical and pneumatic requirements of machinery used in the production of non wovens
- Understand how to maintain machines used to produce non wovens
Planning for Textile ProductionReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and functions of production planning
- Understand the resource requirements of production planning
- Understand the management systems required for production planning
Professional practice/preparation for employment within the textile industryReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the workings of a company specific to the sector the learner is working /intends to work in
- Produce a report to meet a specific task
- Produce personal business contextualised paperwork
Textile finishingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and processes involved in textile finishing
- Understand how to prevent faults when carrying out textile finishing processes
- Understand environmental issues when carrying out textile finishing processes
- Understand the electrical and pneumatic requirements of machinery used in textile finishing processes
- Understand how to maintain machines used in textile finishing processes
Textile testingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and methods of textile testing
- Understand the procedures for calibrating testing equipment
- Understand how to maintain equipment
Textiles dyeing and printingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and processes involved in the textile colouration processes
- Understand the principles and processes involved in textile printing processes
- Understand how to prevent faults when printing and dyeing textiles
- Understand environmental issues when dyeing and printing textiles
- Understand the electrical and pneumatic requirements of machinery used in dyeing and printing
- Understand how to maintain machines used in dyeing and printing
Warp Knitting and LaceReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and processes of warp knitting production and lace manufacture
- Identify and analyse faults
- Understand the electrical and pneumatic requirements of machinery used in warp knitting and lace
- Understand how to maintain warp knitting machines
WeavingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and processes of weaving
- Identify and analyse faults
- Understand the electrical and pneumatic requirements of machinery used in weaving
- Understand how to maintain weaving machines
Weft KnittingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and processes for weft knitting production
- Identify and analyse faults
- Understand the electrical and pneumatic requirements of machinery used in weft knitting
- Understand how to maintain weft knitting machines
Woven fabric designReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of woven fabric design and development from initial idea to finished product
- Understand the principles of technical drafting
- Use CAD techniques in woven fabric design processes
- Understand fabric analysis techniques
- Understand the principles and processes of weaving
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Analyse and assess fibres and fabric structures used in technical textiles
- Analyse and assess stain resistant textiles to meet performance requirements
- Control the efficiency of the weaving process
- Develop finishing processes
- Dry and finish textile items following wet cleaning
- Dye Fabric and Sewn Products
- Dye or Print Fabrics or Costumes
- Finish textile items after dry cleaning
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for SEG Awards ABC Level 3 Diploma In Textile Design and Manufacture
23 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards.
- Aspects of Design within the Textile Industry
- Buying including import/export within the textile industry
- Carpet manufacturing processes
- Fibre and Yarn Processing
- General Textile Technology
- Knitted fabric design
and 17 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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