GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

In years past, education had been a difficult asset to dream of, behold, not to talk about learning a course like textiles. Although textiles had been sought after since the time of Adam and Eve on the discovery of their nakedness, they never knew how to produce materials (clothes), and they only depended on using fig leaves for coverage. The exploration of fibre potentials ranging from Musa species, raffia, applique techniques, ndidi, jute, tie and dye, batik, and weaving of all sorts including Asoke and Akwete in Nigerian society is an attempt to turn around the socio-economic life of Nigerian people who happened to have been dependent on the importation of foreign clothes, even second-hand clothing, from the highly industrialized countries of the world for many decades. This paper examines the production of clothing beginning from the making of paper work, where designs are created in pencils and colour rough, to the process of doing tie and dye, batik, Printing, applique and weaving unique Styles with reference to the development of fashion industries . This paper therefore, maintains that the controversy that learning of textile skills in education environment and native weaving of arts of old have nothing to do in common is completely unfounded. Indeed, art skills in Textile education sectors and weaving done locally are inseparable, exploiting the enormous Potentials that exist in the textile (fashion) world, life Long Learning merge together in both textiles industries and educational skills as field of Textiles.

KEYWORDS: Textiles Experience, Life learning.