Development of fabric products and technology transfer to Lopburi Communities

Abstract

The research of developmental and transferable technology in household fabric items from cloth in Lopburi province community was given the budget from the upper central part research networks of the Office of higher education commission in 2005. The objective of the project were developing household fabric items from local weaving cloth in Lopburi province in order to create the training course curriculum and transfer to Lopburi province community, increase income of the community and also create the new career. The training courses ware under the scope of using cotton and silk fabrie from Lopburi community. The procedures were devided the participants into 2 groups, each group would be 30 people. They were trained 2 courses for 12 hours. After the training course, the researcher evaluated the curriculum and training proudures by questionnaire and anylysed by mean. The result found that the objective of the curriculums were the most suitable on the demand of the participants and community at the level of 4.00 and 4.30 respectively. For all the structures of the courses, the duration of theory, practical lessons and details were rated "most". All activities during the training courses carried out at most suitable for contents of the activities. For the instructors, all the items of the evaluation test; number, preparation, knowledge, expertise, the ability to transfer and answer the questions were rated "most". For all the items of the equipments, documents, place were rated "most". All the sufficiency of number and size of the training room, the efficiency of tools, equipments and the attractiveness of the finishing products were also rated "most".