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ThesisItem Open Access Development of Eco-Fashion Accessories from Leftover /Waste of Zari /Brocade Fabrics(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2014) Baljit Kaur; Devinder KaurThe investigation entitled “Development of eco-fashion accessories from leftover/ waste of zari/brocade fabrics” was carried out in Ludhiana city. An interview schedule was prepared for the purpose of collection data from 90 respondents between the age group of 19-25 years selected through purposive random sampling technique from three colleges of Ludhiana city. The results of the study revealed that majority of the respondents were 19-22 years of age group and were pursuing their graduation, belonging to nuclear families and had monthly family income ranged between `10,000-50,000. Eighty seven per cent of the respondents were aware of eco-fashion accessories and 61.11 per cent were interested to reuse the discarded garments whereas 65.55 per cent of the respondents preferred to buy accessories. Readymade accessories were the most preferred accessories with three coloured combination followed by multi and two coloured combinations. Most of the fabric waste was collected from bounties. On the basis of the preferences of respondents, four sketches of each accessory were developed through Corel Draw X4 and were shown to 10 panel of judges. After the selection of sketches the most preferred designs were developed. After this second interview schedule was prepared to study the preferences for the developed eco-fashion accessories. For this purpose subsample of thirty respondents were randomly selected. All the accessories were highly appreciated on the basis of suitability of design, utility and overall impact. Majority of the respondents rated all the accessories as very good. The quoted prices of the accessories were found to be adequate and 12.50 to 25.55 per cent profit can be earned by making eco-fashion accessories.ThesisItem Open Access KNITWEAR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT USING KASUTI EMBROIDERY MOTIFS(PAU Ludhiana, 2013) Karandeep Kaur; Devinder KaurThe investigation entitled ‘Knitwear product development using kasuti embroidery motifs’ was carried out in Ludhiana city. Traditional motifs of kasuti embroidery were selected and plates were developed through Corel Draw 13 and were shown to 10 panel of judges. After the selection of motifs, three colour combinations of each motif were developed and again shown to 20 judges to finalize the 10 colour combinations of the 10 selected motifs for the development of design. After that two different design placements were prepared of the 10 most preferred motifs and their colour combinations. An interview schedule was prepared for the purpose of collecting data from 80 female respondents between the age group of 20 to 30 years selected randomly from three colleges of Ludhiana city. The results of the study revealed that majority of the respondents were graduates, belonging to nuclear families. Seventy per cent of the respondents were aware of knitwear designs and 51.25 per cent aware of kasuti embroidery and 70 per cent respondents preferred to buy knitwear kurtis. Readymade kurtis were the most preferred kurtis with medium length and V-shape necklines. Multi coloured combination was the most preferred colour combination followed by two colour and three colour combinations. Skin, pista green, red and cream were the most preferred colours. After this second interview schedule was prepared to study the preferences for the developed knitwear kurtis. For this purpose four localities of Ludhiana city were selected. All the kurtis were highly appreciated on the basis of colour combinations and overall impact where as kurti D10 was the most preferred kurti. Majority of the respondents rated all the kurtis as very good. The quoted price of the kurtis was found to be adequate and 30.72 to 50 percent profit can be earned by making knitwear kurtis.ThesisItem Restricted Standardization of conditions for extraction of fibre from corn stover(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2017) Garima Singh; Devinder KaurAgriculture and textile have had a long standing relationship from ancient times. Maize is emerging as third most important crop after rice and wheat in India. Nowadays this crop is widely used for research purposes in textile to get fibre from its leftover stover. The present study deals with the various treatments given to the corn stover which includes retting of the corn stover, treatment of sodium hydroxide and xylanase enzyme. In this study the effect on physical and mechanical properties were observed and SEM of the corn stover fibre was also observed. The fibre retted for 15 days was having yield, i.e. 350 g/kg and was having good quality fibre as comparative to fibre retted for 10 and 20 days. It can be concluded that the corn stover retted for 15 days and the treatment given with 15.0gpl sodium hydroxide at 90°C for time duration of 90 min with pH7, can be recommended to treat corn stover fibre as it improves its physical properties, i.e. length (12.60 cm), crimp (0.32 %) and moisture content (0.31%) and mechanical properties, i.e. bundle strength (7.13 g/tex) and elongation (5.45%) which was maximum as comparative to the other treatment conditions. It was found that the optimized conditions for the application of xylanase enzyme on corn stover fibre were found 0.2 percent at 50°C for 30 min and pH7 which shows the best results on the physical properties, i.e. length (11.50 cm), crimp (0.53 %) and mechanical properties, i.e. bundle strength (8.11 g/tex) and elongation (6.33%) as comparative to the other treatment conditions. The SEM analysis of fibre shows that the fibre treated with sodium hydroxide was having diameter of 100 µm which was reduced after enzymatic treatment to 30 µm.