Cedric T. Muncy
Textile Designer
Greensboro, NC · (806) 555 0105 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/cedrictmuncy
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Seven years in woven apparel fabric development
INDUSTRIES
Woven apparel mills, yarn dyeing, contract weaving
SPECIALTIES
Weave development, yarn and fiber selection, colorway creation, sample management
SYSTEMS
NedGraphics, Adobe Illustrator, Datacolor, Microsoft Excel
CREDENTIALS
Member, American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in textile technology, North Carolina State University
Executive Summary
Textile designer with seven years in woven apparel fabrics at a domestic mill. Develops constructions in NedGraphics, works with the weave room on loom trials and takes each new fabric through colorfastness testing before it reaches a customer sample yardage.
Signature Achievements
- Developed a shirting construction now in its fourth season and about two hundred thousand yards a year.
- Cut sample development time from six weeks to three by ordering warp beams against a forecast.
- Solved a crocking failure on a yarn dyed indigo by changing fiber blend rather than finish.
- Built the seasonal color library that four designers and two mills now work from.
- Passed forty one fabrics through colorfastness testing in a year with three retests.
- Presented the woven range at two trade shows and picked up six new accounts.
Professional Experience
Textile Designer
Piedmont Weaving Mills, Greensboro, NC 2021 to present
Design studio of five inside a mill weaving about nine million yards a year
- Creates woven constructions in NedGraphics and issues specifications to the weave room.
- Selects yarn counts, fiber blends and finishes for each new development.
- Reviews loom trials on the floor and adjusts setts and picks with the technicians.
- Submits fabrics for colorfastness testing to American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists methods.
Assistant Designer
Haw River Fabric Company, Burlington, NC 2019 to 2021
Design team of three at a small mill supplying regional apparel makers
- Prepared colorways and hand looms for customer presentations.
- Kept the sample archive and shipped fabric headers to accounts.
Design Intern
Guilford Studio Textiles, High Point, NC 2018 to 2019
Studio of eight producing woven samples for furniture customers
- Wound yarn and dressed sample looms for the designers.
- Logged fabric specifications into the studio catalog.
Licensure and Certification
Member, American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists
Member, Textile Association of the Carolinas
Education
Bachelor of Science in textile technology, North Carolina State University
Certificate in color management, Datacolor training program
Core Skills
Weave development · NedGraphics · Yarn selection · Colorway creation · Colorfastness testing · Loom trials · Fabric specifications · Adobe Illustrator · Sample management · Customer presentation