TRAINING PROGRAM FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGNING OF CARPET FIGURES

ITKIB AUCTION ENTERPRISES Inc., the organizer of carpet, kilim and textile auctions, has given start to classes teaching computer-aided designing of carpet figures, aiming to train new designers for the sector Turkish carpetmaking.
The organisation, supported by IHIB (Istanbul Carpet Exporters Associations) and coordinated by ITKIB training branch, aims to have "carpet designers with the ability to prepare their motifs on computer screens".
Aware that the most important aspect to enable acceleration in the field is "design", Istanbul Union of Carpet Exporters has initiated a training unit under ITKIB Auction Enterprises Inc., an ITKIB establishment. All information about the usage of JacquART Design and Most Visual Archives software programs are to be transferred during the two weeks of training to the graduates of related college faculties.

The agenda of the first week is to provide trainees with the basic features of the software programs and the necessary command of knowledge to draw carpet figures using these features. The basic training includes a sample production in accordance with the "on the job training" method.

The objective is to lead the trainees to utilise their designing and drawing abilities in the maximum using the electronic medium. Basic knowledge about carpets, the motifs and the names used for them in different geographic regions are also given as general information.

At the end of the training program, the designers will have learned how to make carpet drawings on the electronic medium using two different types of software and gained the necessary basic knowledge about carpets.