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Subject: Clothing and Textiles × Author: Bhardwaj, Himani × Start date: 1978 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Designing a line of tunics inspired from inlay work
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2020) Bhardwaj, Himani; Brar, Kanwaljit
    The study entitled’ Designing a line of tunics inspired from inlay work’ was carried out to explore the possibility of using inlay work motifs for designing tunics. The motifs of inlay work were digitally documented from religious monuments and buildings of three districts of Punjab and other secondary sources. Thirty motifs comprising of ten motifs in each category of stylized floral, geometrical and stylized animal/bird inlay motifs were selected from documented motifs. Top ten motifs were selected by the investigator for developing the designs of tunics based on preferences of ten experts. Twenty tunics were designed with top ten selected inlay motifs using CorelDraw X6. Information about the preferential choice of ninety college-going girls, randomly selected from three colleges of Ludhiana city, regarding various design features of tunics was collected through survey method. The findings revealed that tubular silhouette (mean score 5.42) was most preferred followed by the A-line silhouette (mean score 4.83). Most of the girls preferred band finished (mean score 5.63) and boat necklines (mean score 5.51) over round neck (mean score 3.82) and square neck (mean score 3.16). Ankle length tunics (mean score 2.7) with straight sleeves (mean score 6.97) in cotton fabric of cool and warm colours were highly preferred by the respondents. Most liked rendering technique was machine embroidery (53.00%) in combination with swarovski (mean score 6.74) and beads (mean score 5.26). Based on the preferential choices of the girls, six tunics were prepared using inlay motifs with machine embroidery technique. Evaluation of designed tunics was done by a sub-sample of thirty respondents. The most preferred tunic on the basis of silhouette was D5 (Mean score 4.6) which obtained first rank. Tunic D8 (mean score 5.2) was most preferred for the embellishments used. Both D5 and D8 tunics were most preferred for overall appeal. Quoted selling price of prepared tunic D5 was observed as adequate by most of the respondents (76.67 %). The profit percentage from minimum 20.40 per cent to maximum 26.67 per cent might be possible through commercial production of tunics. Mass production of tunics can reduce the cost of production.