Development of Designs From Ethnic KHANA Motifs on Dress Materials
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2017-06
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University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad
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The present study entitled ‘Development of designs from ethnic Khana motifs on dress materials’ was conducted during 2015-2017 with objectives to design the Khana motifs for dress materials applying elements and principles of design, digitize the motifs through CATD and know the preference of the developed dress materials. Totally 30 Guledgudda weavers were personally interviewed with self-structured questionnaire to collect the Khana motifs, historical background of Khana, demographic characteristics and the problems faced. Twenty kurti designs were developed using ten Khana motifs by applying elements and principles of design and five best kurti designs were selected by taking preferences from thirty textile experts. The selected five designs were digitized and woven on powerloom with jacquard shedding mechanism. A five point rating proforma was distributed to 60 respondents (30 students and 30 working women) for taking preference regarding the newly developed jacquard woven Khana kurtis. Majority of the weavers faced the problems of hike in price (60.00%) of raw materials, repairs and maintenance of powerloom (53.33%), back pain (76.67%) and eyesight weakness (75.00%). Significant results were found with respect to working hours and eye sight weakness & dust allergy, whereas highly significant with joint pain and back pain. The jacquard woven kurtis comprised of 2/100s cotton warp and 2/40s mercerized weft and 110d extra weft polyester yarns. The cost of jacquard woven Khana kurtis varied from Rs. 350/- to Rs. 600/- depending on the amount of extra weft yarns used. Cent per cent of the respondents agreed that the developed jacquard woven kurtis were woven based on elements and principles of design, appreciated and well accepted with regard to cost, motif clarity, motif combination, background and motif colour combination and overall appearance. The acceptability index of all the kurtis was more than 70 per cent, which indicated high acceptance index.