The Plastic Values of the Arches in Islamic Architecture and Benefiting from them in Designing and Embroidering Women's Kaftans Using Upholstery Fabrics

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1 Head of the Clothes and Textile Department ,Faculty of Home Economics- Al - Azahar University, Egypt.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Clothing and Textiles, Faculty of Home Economics, El-Ohra University

Abstract

Civilizational cultural heritage is one of the main drivers It is important to the creative process in the field of design, as it affects the consumer’s attraction to the product. Legacies, beliefs and traditions affect our interaction with the product and our feelings towards it. Hence the idea of the research emerged as it was intended to treat Islamic Arches and embroidering them in a holographic and prominent manner on the surface of the fabric using types of gold and silver metallic threads, beads, lobes and stitches that help to give the required prominence .
What made embroidery rich is that synthesis between two different materials in aesthetic characteristics, namely, embroidery materials and upholstery fabrics that are embroidered on. It is an important economic for the consumer. The two researchers found that despite the many different and well-known methods in the field of embroidery, the use of the stereoscopic embroidery method, which contains unconventional artistic and technical characteristics, is a great addition. For the embroidered product, the study aimed to benefit from the plastic and aesthetic values of Islamic Arches in the implementation of a stereoscopic set of decorative units with embroidery with the use of upholstery fabrics as a new vision for the design and implementation The women’s kaftan and the use of Islamic Arches to add an aesthetic value to the kaftan using different embroidery techniques. The most important results were that all designs obtained a very agreeable, this is evidence of the success of the research idea

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Journal of Design Sciences and Applied Arts
Volume 3, Issue 2
June 2022
Pages 284-303

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