Here are some of the key words that you will encounter in Design and Technology.
Tools & Equipment • Band saw • Batik pots • Bench hook • Bench vice • Blender • Brushes • Buffing machine • China graph pencil • Chisel • Chopping board • Circular saw • Colander • Compass • Computerised embroidery machine • Coping saw • Cutting mat • Disc sander • Fork • G-clamp • Hack saw • Hammer • Hand drill • Heat press • Iron • Knife/knives • Ladles • Laser cutter • Lathe • Machine vice • Mallet • Microwave • Mincer • Mitre saw • Mixing bowls • Mortiser • Oven • Pillar drill • Pinking shears • Printer • Refrigerator • Rollers • Rolling pin whisk • Rotary cutter • Ruler • Safety ruler • Sanding block • Scalpel • Scissors • Screw driver • Scroll saw • Seam ripper • Setsquare • Sewing machine • Sieve • Spoon • Strip heater • Tailor chalk • Tenon saw • Tjanting • Tri-square • Vacuum former • Vinyl plotter cutter • Weighing scales.
Materials / Finishes / Adhesives • Abrasive paper • Acetate • Acrylic • Card • Card Board • Cashmere • Coloured Card • Cord • Corduroy • Corrugated Board • Cotton • Denim • Double Sided Tape • Dye • Elastane • Fabric • Flour • Glue Gun • Glue Stick • Grey Board • Hardboard • Hardwood • Lycra • Masking Tape • MDF • Meat • Microfibres • Natural Fibre • Nylon • Organic Cotton • Paint • Paper • Plywood • Polyester • Polystyrene • Primer • PVA Glue • Rayon • Sellotape Bondaweb • Silk • Smart Materials • Softwood • Staple Fibres • Sublimation ink • Synthetic Fibre • Tartan • Tensol Cement • Thermoplastic Fibres • Thread • Trims • Varnish • Vegetables • Velour • Velvet • Vinyl • Viscose • Wax • Wood Stains • Wool • Yarns.
Components and Fixings • Batteries • Battery holders • Beads • Bobbin • Brackets • Braid • Buttons • Catches • Dowels • Embroidery • Handles • Hinges • Hooks • Knock down fittings • Lace • Locks • Nuts and bolts • Press buttons • Rick rack • Screws nails • Sequins • Speakers • Switches • Tea light • Thread • Thread • Velcro • Zipper.
Processes • Assembling • Baking • Blow moulding • Brazing • Butt joint • Cad/cam • Calendaring • Card modelling • Casting • Chiselling • Cutting & scoring • Dart • Die casting • Drilling • Fixing • Food processing • Frying • Gluing • Grilling • Honeycomb weave • Injection moulding • Ink jet printing • Interfacing • Kneading • Knitting • Laser printing • Lining mortise and tenon joint • Lost wax casting • Measuring & marking • Metal turning • Mitre joint • Moulding • Plain weave • Quilting • Rendering • Riveting • Routing • Sand casting • Sanding • Satin weave • Sawing • Shading • Sketching • Soldering • Spun underlining • Stir fry • Stirring • Strip heating • Sublimation printing • Tessellating • Tessellation • Twill weave • Vacuum forming • Vilene • Waffle weave • Welding • Wood turning.
Terminology • Aesthetic • Animal Fibres • Batch Production • Block • Brief • CAD/CAM • Carbohydrate • Carded • Component • Compressive • Design • Diet • Directional Pile • Disassemble • Evaluation • Fabric • Fibre • Flowchart • Hygiene • Ingredient • Innovation • Just in time • Linen • Machine • Manufacture • Mass Production • Mineral • Natural textile • Nutrition • One Off Production • Plan • Planning • Portfolio • Power assisted textiles • Presentation • Proban Finish • Production • Protein • Prototype • Raw Edge • Recipe • Regenerated Fibres • Rendering • Schedule • Selvedge • Sew • Specification • Strength • Technology • Tensile strength • Tension • Vitamin • Warp • Warp Knitted • Wearable technology • Weft Knitted • Weft.
Year 7 Design and Technology 