African textile design and fabric arts as a source for contemporary fashion trends

摘要：

　　Textile design and arts in Africa traced back to thousand of centuries when some ethnic groups were started producing clothes for multi-purpose uses.Their design creations and arts were known to be having geometric patterns graced with wonderful choice of colors which were primarily bright in that sense.This paper introduces African textile designs and dressing styles.The concept of designing African textiles and its method to integrate on contemporary fashion trends are intended to be discussed.Color choices, selection of patterns and combination of aesthetics values are also included after taking some examples that illustrated African textiles.The kind of motif selection, balancing shapes and color sonority imbedded on these fabrics have a lot of thing to do with their wearing culture and dressing styles.The import of motifs on fabric has its own techniques.Textile design and fabrics produced based on these techniques are finally planned to convey known values from generation to generation.

关键词： African textiles design fabric arts

作者: Dereje Debeli Liu Jie Yuan Zhou Jiu

作者单位: Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology,Ministry of Education,Zhejiang Sci-Tech University,Hangzhou,Zhejiang,310018,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2013 2nd International Conference on Science and Social Research (2013年第二届科学与社会研究国际会议)(ICSSR2013)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 229-233

在线出版日期: 2013-07-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）