Events and projects with students

creUNI project+

creUNI – Modern creations of national recognition elements and the possibilities of integration for formal uniforms

The purpose of the project was to create a design concept of a T-shirt with Slovenian motifs and to develop a protocol for the marketing of T-shirts for uniformed clothes. The primary target group of consumers are users of uniform clothing. In addition, we wanted to design a T-shirt for young people, so they can experience the beauty and richness of Slovenian cultural heritage in a more modern way. The project team included students of various skills and practices, such as design, textile technology and marketing. Students studied the background of motifs, their meaning and connection in Slovenian culture. The motifs that often occurred on historical textiles were digitized and redesigned by students to form a single motif that will be printed on the shirt. Students also studied the suitability of digital printing with reactive dyes on textiles made of bamboo viscose (100% or mixed with cotton or polyester) and colour fastness. The students also prepared conceptual solutions for design, tailoring and producing prototype T-shirts as a part of uniformed clothing and T-shirts for young people. In order to create a T-shirt marketing protocol, the students studied modern marketing methods, analysed the market situation and studied a market communication. In cooperation with the company KOR Tekstil, the students learned about the technological process of designing and manufacturing clothing (design, technical drawing, materials, tailoring, assembly). Students learnt about the needs and limitations on the market. In the working environment of KOR Tekstil, students also learnt the importance of networking and marketing, and how it is important to develop Slovenian textile products. Students participated in the marketing approach for the preparation of materials for the sale of original products with the Association of Textile Engineers and Technicians of Slovenia. The results of the project will be presented at the Symposium on Novelties in Textiles 2017 and in the original scientific article.

Invited lecture at SPIG 2016+

At the international symposium SPIG 2016 (Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionised Gases) I presented an invited lecture entitled “Application of plasma for development of innovative functional textiles”. The symposium was held at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The program of symposium covered the invited lectures, lectures and poster presentations in the field of ionised gases (Atomic Collision Processes – Electron and Photon Interactions with Atomic Particles, Heavy Particle Collisions, Swarms and Transport Phenomena; Particle and Laser Beam Interactions with Solids – Atomic Collisions in Solids, Sputtering and Deposition, Laser and Plasma Interaction with Surfaces; Low Temperature Plasmas – Plasma Spectroscopy and other Diagnostic Methods, Gas Discharges, Plasma Applications and Devices; General Plasmas – Fusion Plasmas, Astrophysical Plasmas and Collective Phenomena.)

Students project "slo culT-SHIRT" (june 2016)+

The purpose of the slo culT-SHIRT exhibition is to raise the awareness of young people about the richness and beauty of Slovenian cultural heritage. The exhibition shows the collaboration between students of technology and design, promoting their symbiotic cooperation where two seemingly very different approaches deliver beautiful and modern textile products. T-shirts were printed with stylized motifs of Slovenian cultural heritage present in traditional textile embroidery patterns, Idrija lace patterns and Slovenian architecture. The project was conducted as a part of the study courses Computer-assisted design for printing and Sustainable design 1. The exhibition took place in Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, June 2016 and at the Department of Textiles, Graphic Arts and Design

Students: Irena Mulec, Denis Lukešević, Mateja Holjevac, Katarina Farič, Ana Štucin, Zala Finžgar, Tina Homan, Nuša Perkič, Sonja Tomić, Anja Verbič, Manja Rep, Ana Janc, Sanja Slejko Valačić, Polona Šavc, Petra Jerič, Valerija Intihar, Katarina Marija Kmet, Ivan Nešković, Maša Erčulj, Lara Žagar, Petra Frank, Peter Simčič, Tina Crnkovič, Maruša Podgornik, Ina Hadžisulejmanović, Mateja Zajc, Žanin Bernjak, Sara Pižmoht, Uroš Topić, Joe Cox, Monika Colja, Tjaša Magdič, Cilka Sadar, Živa Červek, Karmen Grilj, Andreja Vidas, Kaja Repenšek, Maja Kužner, Anja Medle.

GORJANC, Marija (avtor, mentor), SADAR, Almira. culT-SHIRT : motifs of Slovenian cultural heritage printed on T-shirt. V: SIMONČIČ, Barbara (ur.), TOMŠIČ, Brigita (ur.), GORJANC, Marija (ur.). Book of abstracts, 16th World Textile Conference AUTEX 2016, 8 – 10 June 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ljubljana: Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Department of Textiles, Graphic Arts and Design, 2016, str. 197. [COBISS.SI-ID 3257200]

Students research on dyeing the different substrates with a natural dye+

Students Iris Vrhovski (Textile and Clothing Production), Monika Curk (Textile and Clothing Production) and Rosana Sluga Štih (Textile and Fashion Design) have researched the influence of substrate (cotton, wool, polyester) on dyeability with natural dye of tumeric. The results were presented in the research poster contribution at the International AUTEX 2016 Conference, which was held from 8 to 10 June 2016, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

GORJANC, Marija, VRHOVSKI, Iris, CURK, Monika, SLUGA ŠTIH, Rosana. The adsorption of curcumin dyestuff on different textile substrates. V: SIMONČIČ, Barbara (ur.), TOMŠIČ, Brigita (ur.), GORJANC, Marija (ur.). Proceedings, 16th World Textile Conference AUTEX 2016, 8-10 June 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ljubljana: Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Department of Textiles, Graphic Arts and Design, 2016, 6 str., ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 3246704]

Students research on mordanting during dyeing with natural dye - 1+

Irena Mulec (Textile and Clothing Production) researched the influence of different mordanting application methods and different mordants on dyeability of cotton with turmeric dye. The results were published in journal Tekstilec and at the Symposium on Novelties in Textiles.

Published article
MULEC, Irena, GORJANC, Marija. The influence of mordanting on the dyeability of cotton dyed with turmeric extract = Vpliv čimžanja na obarvljivost bombaža z ekstraktom kurkume. Tekstilec, ISSN 0351-3386, 2015, vol. 58, no. 3, str. 199-208, ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 3173488]

Students research on mordanting during dyeing with natural dye - 2+

Students Iris Vrhovski (Textile and Clothing Production), Monika Curk (Textile and Clothing Production) and Rosana Sluga Štih (Textile and Fashion Design) have researched the influence of mordanting with silver nitrate on dyeability of cotton with green tea. The results were published in journal Tekstilec.

Published article
GORJANC, Marija, SLUGA ŠTIH, Rosana, VRHOVSKI, Iris, CURK, Monika. The influence of mordanting with silver nitrate on the dyeability and UV protection of cotton dyed with green tea = Vpliv čimžanja s srebrovim nitratom na obarvljivost in UV-zaščito bombaža, pobarvanega z zelenim čajem. Tekstilec, ISSN 0351-3386, 2015, vol. 58, no. 3, str. 191-198, ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 3173232]

Prešeren Award 2015+

The Prešeren’s faculty award was given to Miha Kavčič, student of Textile and Clothing Production for the work titled “The impact of cotton processing with plasma of oxygen and ammonia on the adsorption on the natural dye of turmeric”, under the mentorship of assist. prof. dr. Marija Gorjanc and co-mentorship of prof. dr. Miran Mozetič (Institute Jožef Stefan).

Reward for Special Achievement 2015+

Irena Mulec, the student of 3rd study year of Textile and Clothing Production, researched the influence of mordanting on dyeability of cotton with natural dye and presented the results in two original scientific contributions.

Popular-science lecture at the House of Experiments+

On the 15th May 2014 I had a popular-science lecture at the House of Experiments, Ljubljana. In the lecture, entitled “Magical” properties of textiles, I presented textile engineering as one of the oldest technologies that is in constant development. Some of the results of the program group P2-0213 Textiles and Ecology, with emphasis on the development of high-tech textile materials with new technologies such as the use of plasma and nanotechnology (sol-gel and nanoparticles) were presented.

Scientific monograph+

Prof. dr. Miran Mozetič (Institute Jožef Stefan) and I co-authored the scientific monograph entitled Modification of fibrous polymers by gaseous plasma : principles, techniques and applications.

Fibrous polymers have been the part of our life since the beginning of time. The application of these materials ranges from clothing to artificial blood vessels. The surface properties of selected polymers are not always adequate so they have to be modified prior to specific application. Both deposition and functionalization is often achieved at non-equilibrium conditions using gaseous plasma. This book aims to provide basics of non-equilibrium gases suitable for tailoring surface properties of products made from fibrous polymers. The book provides the basic information about the fibrous polymers and equilibrium thermodynamics, explanations of several paradoxes typical for non-equilibrium gaseous systems, principles of electrical discharges, details on application of plasma created in different gases, particularly for oxygen, nitrogen/ammonia, hydrogen and tetrafluormethane, and plasma effects on fibrous polymers, providing new properties to materials, such as hydrophilicity, hydrophobicity, adhesion, antimicrobicity, drug release and sterility.