An Adaptation of Woven Fabric on Batik for Personal Clothing
Chapter One
SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
The significance of this study is centered on enlightening the public on the possibility of the adaptation of woven fabrics on Batik to produce items like dresses, shoes, walking sticks, caps e.t.c.
- To adapt other usage for textile materials for domestic and household end use
- To create a means for awareness and marketing for such end-use.
- To document our findings for future use
- To encourage new artist into the field of decoration. utilization and adaptation of fabric in other end use than the normal usage that we are used to.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Through the ages, man has shown a great desire to cloth himself. From Adam and Eve when leaves of trees were sown into apron for covering, to when man began to use animal skin. This desire of man to cover his nakedness, developed into cloth making and eventually into fashion. The need for garments by man has brought various ideas about the production of textiles fabric, such as woven fabrics, knitted fabrics, felted fabrics, etc.
Over the years, woven fabrics represent a large part of clothing in the market or industries. In the world today, it is an effective, efficient and versatile method of making a fabric. Weaving is the interacting of yarns under tension to make cloth. The advantage of woven fabrics especially those with natural fibres, has made it adequate for adapting various usage at home. End-uses like, shoes morflags, sandals, caps and walking sticks etc can thus be produced with beauty and efficiency.
WHAT ARE YARNS?
The technique of weaving can be complex or very simple and yet produce lovely and interesting results. Good weaving generally requires a certain amount of planning and forethought and without yarns, there cannot be weaving.
According to Wangboje (1985), yarns are flexible bodies called threads. It is a medium used in producing cloth or fabric. Yarn is put together in a suitable package and the best possible way, is for it to be adequately treated before use.
WHAT IS A LOOM?
Longmans dictionary (1976) define a loom as a “frame or machine on which thread is woven into cloth.” In other words, it the most necessary piece of equipment for weaving. This structure or frame holds the warp yarns tight and helps pull the weft threads through. It is on this frame that the interlacing of yarns is made possible.
Types of Loom
There are several types of loom and they are as follows:
1) Back Strap Loom: This is simple loom which has its root in ancient civilizations comprising two sticks or bar between which the warps are stretched.
2) Warp Weight Loom: The warp weighted loom is a vertically mounted loom that may have originated in the Neolithic period
CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
Various methods adopted in carrying out this research are explained in this chapter. To source for information, this research therefore depended on two major sources of information which are:
1) Primary sources and
2) Secondary sources
Primary Sources
The primary sources include
(a) Oral interview and Participant observation
Oral Interview
The researchers visited some weavers both in Auchi and Ekpoma.
This was dome in simple English and in some cases, the indigenous language was used. This was later transcribed in writing to English language.
At first, some of the people did not respond positively but with gentle persuasion, explaining to them that the arm of the interview was not for mere curiosity but it was to help the case of knitting weave and plain weave. Infact, an appreciable number of the people wished for improvement on the age long woven fabric. In the nearest future was quite high, having explained to them the possibility of transferring the motifs to a lighter fabric like cotton, with more motifs coupled with a variety of colours added, to enhance its beauty.
CHAPTER FOUR
PROCEDURE AND ANALYSIS
MATERIALS USED FOR THE SHOE RACK
RESIN – it a synthetic substance used in plastics as adhesives or bond
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
This chapter centres on summary of the research and conclusion
SUMMARY
The researchers analyzed the adaptation of woven fabric on batik to produce some unusual and unconventional end uses like shoes, morflags, sandals, caps, walking sticks etc. The uniqueness and beauty of these products were also explained.
In the course of the research, new techniques of creating end-uses were discovered in the area of batik. One of the outstanding successes of the studio experience is the design and production of a rack for displaying and exhibiting these end-products. The rack was produced using fibre glass.
The research also exposed us to mastery of the production of shoes, sandals and choice of colours, that will suit each product. We discovered that more than four colours can be applied on a batik fabric without waiting or wasting time for one colour to get dry before applying another
At the end of it all, many items were produced.
CONCLUSION
It is so glaring that our locally produced textiles are very beautiful when used in production of some unusual end-uses.
It is also believed that textile materials are precious to mankind because of the various purposes it serve. One can say the use of weaving and making of batik fabric for the making of a beautiful outfit with shoes, morflag, caps and walking sticks is a unique method.
This new and creative method has brought about different approaches in the production of these outfits.
Weaving, batik, and the shoe rack which stands as the end use are practical oriented. Therefore, a careful mastery of the processes is essential to the production of a good work.
It is hoped that this research will be an impetus for further research, which will make for other contributions towards the growth and popularity of the adaptation of woven fabrics on Batik.
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