The six applications of fabrics include seating, window covering, wall covering, panel systems, floor coverings, and fiber based art. Walking around the Texas Tech campus you can see many of these applications put to use in a variety of settings. In the Human Sciences building, as shown in the below picture, a black leather like material is used for seating in many of the areas. In the English building, many office chairs are upholstered in a decorative fabric that is very wear resistant. Both of the materials used on these two pieces of furniture have many positive but also some negative attributes.
The black leather like material used for upholstering the seating used in the break areas of the Human Sciences building has many ups and downs. For instance, the aesthetic qualities of the material go along perfectly with the Texas Tech colors, red and black, as the material is black with red accents used. However, one of the displeasing qualities of this material is that it looks cheap from one perspective. You can tell this material is not real leather even though it is supposed to made to look like genuine leather. The functionality of this material is great though. It is very wearable and also cleanable meant for an area of high volume and accidents. These two attributes make this leather like material perfect for the break area of the Human Sciences building.
The office chair material in the English building also has it many advantages and disadvantages. The material from an aesthetic perspective is not the most pleasing thing to look at. The design on this fabric is very busy and has too much going on, especially when it is meant for classrooms where focus is key for students. The design in this fabric can be an easy distraction to anyone in these classrooms. The functional qualities, however, of this material is outstanding. The material is obviously very wearable and resistant to abrasion which is great because there clearly many different people sitting in these classroom seats on a daily basis.
After walking through campus, there are many different materials used in a variety of ways. You can see almost every application application of fabrics which are seating, window coverings, wall covering, panel systems, floor coverings, and fiber based art on the Texas Tech campus. These are just two examples of how fabric can be used in the application of seating. These two examples, however, go to show that there are advantages and disadvantages to any fabric used in any application or setting.
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