Sewing 101
Design Elements
Fibers and Fabrics
A Doll's House
Egyptian Costume
100
This is the best way to find the straight of grain of a woven fabric.
What is ripping or tearing?
100
This element of design includes hue, value, and intensity.
What is color?
100
This type of fabric is made artificially in a lab.
What is synthetic fabric?
100
This is Torvald's job, beginning in the new year.
What is Bank Manager?
100
Made from the flax plant, this fabric was the primary material used in Egyptian clothing.
What is linen?
200
These are three departments within the costume shop.
What are design assistants, crafts, stitching/draping/cutting, wardrobe, wigs?
200
This element can be curved, jagged, undulating, or straight.
What is line?
200
Most fabric can be identified by this method.
What is burn testing?
200
This character, who is dying of "consumption of the spine," professes his love for Nora in Act II.
Who is Dr. Rank?
200
Egyptian women wore this sheath dress.
What is the kalisiris?
300
A type of sewing machine that finishes the edges of fabrics.
What is a serger/overlock machine?
300
This element is the three-dimensional version of shape.
What is Form?
300
These are the names of the two threads that form most woven fabrics.
What are the warp and the weft?
300
This was the year that A Doll's House was published.
What is 1879?
300
Egyptian gods and goddesses were most easily identified by this item of clothing.
What are headdresses/crowns?
400
These are the two primary methods used for pattern development.
What are flat patterning and draping?
400
This element is the lightness or darkness of color.
What is value?
400
This fiber comes from sources including sheep, llama, and rabbit.
What is wool?
400
This is the Italian dance that Nora performs at the party in Act III.
What is the Tarantella?
400
Women as well as men could hold this highest government position.
What is Pharaoh?
500
These are the four types of hand stitches we used on our samplers.
What are the running stitch, the slip stitch, the cross stitch, and the hem stitch/invisible stitch?
500
Examples of fabrics that might show this design element are velvet, satin, corduroy, or fur.
What is texture?
500
These are two types of fabrics with "pile."
What is velvet/velveteen/terry cloth/corduroy?
500
Most people would consider this to be the climax of the play.
What is the opening of Krogstad's letter?
500
Used as eyeliner, this material helped to shield the wearer's eyes from the sun.
What is kohl?
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