Adaptation and Application of Henna Motifs for Fabric Painting
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2015
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CCSHAU
Abstract
India‘the land of culture and heritage’ is blessed with numerous arts and crafts and each one is famous
for its uniqueness of motifs, designs, processing etc. Henna is one of the traditional artwork of India
which reflects its culture and rich heritage through intricate designs. It is used for temporary body
decoration and can be served as a great source of inspiration and ideas for creating new designs in the
fashion world. Thus the present study was conducted to adapt and apply henna motifs on sari using
fabric painting. The 186 traditional henna motifs were collected from secondary sources like books,
journals, magazine and internet etc. and screened for their suitability to saris and fabric painting. The
identified motifs were sketched manually and scanned from books, magazines etc. which were then
created and refined in CorelDRAW X5 and Adobe Photoshop to get the required intricacy and fineness.
The created motifs were categorized in four categories viz. floral and foliage, kunj/paisley, animal, bird
and insect and human motifs and shown to the thirty experts to sought their preferences for selection of
five top preferred motifs from each category. A total of fifty designs were developed in CorelDRAW
X5 software using selected twenty motifs and got evaluated by a panel of thirty experts for selection of
five top preferred designs for placement on saris. The base colour and fabric for saris were selected as
per preferences of experts. Fifteen developed design placements were again shown to the experts and
one best design placement of each selected five designs was selected for development of colour ways.
Three colour ways for each selected five design placements were prepared and colour way that secured
Ist rank was selected for development of saris through fabric painting using nozzle technique of henna
application. The cost of each saris was determined by adding the cost of fabric, painting material, and
labour involved in tracing, painting and finishing. The fabrics painted saris were assessed for
consumers’ acceptability on different parameters. Organdie fabric in light yellow colour was most
preferred for saris. Out of ninety six motifs, twenty motifs selected for design development were motif
number 6, 10, 16, 17 and 22 in floral and foliage category, motif number 2, 8, 14, 18 and 23 in
kunj/paisley category, motif number 9, 10, 15, 18 and 21 in animal, bird and insect category and motif
number 10, 13, 15, 16 and 17 in human motifs category. The five top preferred designs were design
number 4, 24, 31, 48 and 50. Preferences of experts for placement of selected five designs were
placement III of design number 4, 31, 48 and 50 and placement I of design number 24. Most preferred
colour ways for fabric painting as per experts’ choice were colour way III of design number 4 and 50,
colour way II of design number 24 and colour way III of design number 31 and 48. Five saris were
developed through fabric painting using nozzle technique of henna application as per preferred
placements and colour ways of selected five designs. All the fabric painted saris were found very
appealing and accepted by consumers on all the parameters of assessment. The cost of the saris was
rated appropriate by all the consumers. Thus, traditional henna motifs adapted for development of
designs for saris has broaden the design base for textile products and cater to the demands of high-end
consumers through diversity of designs and unique technique of fabric painting..
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Selection, Placement, Processed products, Costs, Productivity, technological changes, markets, adaptation, manpower, topping