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

DOI

10.2991/icssr-13.2013.50How to use a DOI?

Keywords

African textiles; design; fabric; arts

Abstract

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.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Debeli Dereje
AU  - Jieyuan Liu
AU  - Jiu Zhou
PY  - 2013/07
DA  - 2013/07
TI  - African textile design and fabric arts as a source for contemporary fashion trends
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Science and Social Research (ICSSR 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 229
EP  - 233
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icssr-13.2013.50
DO  - 10.2991/icssr-13.2013.50
ID  - Dereje2013/07
ER  -