Inspiration and Innovative Approach in Creating Textile Designs and Prints from Sekondi-Takoradi’s Masquerade Costume Designs

Masquerade culture is an essential part of Sekondi-Takoradi cultural embodiment. The masquerade festival titled Ankos displays interesting costumes that have artistic elements of potent colour display and performances. The masquerade costumes manifest intricate fabric decoration techniques for example pleating, folding, gathering, smocking, hand and machine stitching and the use of varied colour schemes. These decorative techniques make costume production laborious, tedious and downtime constraints. In contributing to the innovative approaches to creating textile designs and prints, the study explored the inspirational possibilities of surface designs of the masquerade costume for textile designs and prints. The art-based research design and direct observation as research instrumentation were employed in the artistic creation for the study. Adobe Photoshop was used in the simulation design processes. The study revealed that the simulation design processes produced an innovative imitated visual appearance of the masquerade costume and production processes from a machine-stitched work to a hand-printed fabric. It is recommended that costume makers adopt the contemporary possibility of using hand screen to print hitherto the traditional laborious and tedious process of producing masquerade costumes.

Book Review of A Rainbow in the Mountains:Dress of the Yao—A Guide to Traditional Yao Costumes and Ornaments

A Rainbow in the Mountains:Dress of the Yao,an album of pictures and texts on Yao clothing,the most comprehensive and systematic record of the dazzling costumes of the Yao ethnic minority which has been inscribed on the national intangible cultural heritage list of China since 2006,is of great academic value and practical significance to study the profound connotation of the Yao traditional culture.The various styles,colorful dress customs,and exquisite craftsmanship constitute the beautiful cultural landscape within the Yao ethnic minority,as well as the way to explore all the social aspects of the Yao ethnic minority.This book review aims to arouse the attention of all sectors of the community to the clothing of the Yao ethnic minority,which has met the greatest challenge of the collection and protection of the Yao costumes and ornaments.Thus it is expected to sort out and retain those precious records that have been drifting away via pictures and texts,which we have already started and will continue to do in accord with the national cultural development strategy.

Reflections on Differences of Sino-US Culture in the Perspective of Costume

What makes clothing important? Clothing and accessories is an important tool for studying popular culture and so- cial history. The history of human costume can be seen, in a certain degree, as the development history of sensible human culture. These artifacts help tell the story of status differences and class aspirations through the materials used and the cut of a garment. Clothing reflects cultural historical differences and social mores that have changed over time. Clothing reflects behavior standards, ...

Structure and Patterns of Changtian-Style Costume of Miao Nationality

The emergence and development trend of the clothing worn by Miao people are closely related to their social lifestyles and folk customs.At the same time,the changes in the structures and patterns of their clothing have an indicative function to distinguish each branch,defining the range of age,marriage status,and so on.As a result,their clothing styles are diverse,and the patterns used for their clothing continuously evolve on the basis of earlier patterns.

Expression of National Cultural Elements in Ancient Costume Animation Movie Scene

In Chinese ancient costume animation movies, there are problems of unreasonable cultural expression in many architectural scenes, such as not meticulous scene design and weak understanding of the relationship between artistic design and image cultural expression. This is greatly different from the spirit of passing on national ethnic culture. In order to transform such situation, it is recommended to set up the concept of passing on the ethnic culture, follow the principle of creation of national art and practice of story creation, improve the style of domestic animation movies, and raise the concept of cultural creation.

Establishment of Costume Design Database Based on Image Resources in Daur Nationality

Through collecting, summarizing and effectively classifying the image resources in Daur nationality,and applying the theories and methods of costume design,ethnology and computer science,it investigates into the retrieval method and indicator system of images resources in Daur nationality in the context of digitalization. The preliminarily established application model of Daur costume design database can search out all qualified image resources from the database quickly according to the prerequisites given by users so that they can obtain information promptly. In particular,costume designers can get inspirations of creation and enlightenment on their creative thinking. Therefore,the effective integration of art and scientific researches can be realized.

Application of Patchwork Art Form in Traditional Costumes:A Case Study of Baijia Clothes

Patchwork art culture has a long history and is also a kind of aestheticism fashion popular in the internet.Patchwork art of Baijia clothes is taken as the research object,and various application of patchwork art in Chinese traditional costumes in past thousand years is explained.As cultural identity of the Chinese nation,patchwork continuously nourishes and enriches world cultural relics.Its application research not only could bring rich inspiration for modern costume art but also has important actual significance and higher historical value.

The Structural Characteristics of Side-Opening Costumes during the Republic Period of China

The structural characteristics of Chinese side-opening costumes during the Republic Period of China were investigated.By measuring and recovering the physical structures of side-opening costume objects from the Folk Costumes Biography Museum of Jiangnan University,three structural characteristics were analyzed.These structural characteristics show that most of the side-opening costumes during the Republic Period of China remain traditional Chinese costume structures.The general structural characteristics of side-opening costumes are concluded and the structural cutting methods can inspire current designs as well as provide useful references for contemporary fashion designers.

Study on the Traditional Costume of Naxi Nationality

The Naxi people has a long history and excellent traditional culture.In this study,the author studied the historical background and the traditional culture of Naxi costume.The results of the study are as follows:The progress of productivity is the decisive factor.Totem culture is an important basis for the color selection.The heavy costumes are the result of adapting to the geographical environment.

Chinese Costumes and the Spirit of Chinese Aesthetics

The aesthetics of Chinese costume is the crystallization of traditional Chinese artistry and at the same time is not without dregs, such as the suppression of its subjectivity, restraint of human body and segregation of different social classes. In contemporary China, Chinese costume keeps changing with the aesthetic needs of the time. Under such circumstances, filtration, screening and sublation have become the basic methods to inherit and carry forward the essence of traditional Chinese costume. It is contemporary Chinese people's due responsibility to demonstrate the spirit of Chinese aesthetics via dressing, take the initiative to spread such a spirit, and showcase the unique charm of Chinese aesthetics by the light of nature.

Victory Ceremony Hosts/Hostess Costume Design Scheme for Beijing Olympics Sought

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the 29th Olympiad(BOCOG)announced on May 22 that it is organizing a bid across the nation for the design scheme of the victory ceremony hosts/hostess costumes for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games from May 23 to June 25,2007.

Intelligent Costume Recommendation System Based on Expert System

On the basis of expert system, we design a costume recommendation system which provides customers with clothing collocation solution and more experience. We set up a costume matching knowledge base collected from experts, and represent the knowledge with production rules. By analyzing the customers' specific physical information got through man-machine interface, the proposed system provides customers an intelligent costume recommendation strategy in accordance with blackboard model reasoning. Moreover, index adding algorithm is integrated into the traditional serial blackboard model in the system. Finally, we present experiments which show the search rate is improved significantly.

Should China Adopt Hanfu as Its National Costume?

Hanfu, or traditional clothi the Han Chinese, was long regarded by the country’s pre- dominant ethnic group as a very important part of their culture,

Rank Badges of Official Costumes ofMing and Qing Dynasties from the Perspective of Social Semiotics

The official dress systems of Ming and Qing Dynasties were formulated by the rulers of those feudal societies to maintain their ruling status.As well as being a functional indication of the type and power of officials,the rank badge,Buzi or Bufu(补子,补服),on official clothes indirectly declared the elegant and brave characteristics of civil and military officers,and also reflected the philosophy of the unity and harmony between human and nature.Informed by social semiotics theory,the Buzi patterns embody the culture and arts of ancient Chinese clothing,producing novel meaning within corresponding social contexts,which can be inherited and developed in today's society.Moreover,the wearing of official unified clothes and rank badges by officials and civil servants should be encouraged since those persons often serve as a role model and are subject to public's scrutiny.Thus ancient Chinese culture and arts can flourish,a good social order and law be maintained,and a harmonious and civilized society built.

Sun Huanxiang-A Costume Designer for an "Emperor"

A soap opera called Legends of Emperor Qianlong was very popular in Beijing. People talked about it everywhere, including the emperor’s appearance and the actor’s performance as if the emperor was their old friend. Zheng Shaoqiu, who played the role of the emperor, made the chief contribution to the smash hit

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

In China, whose population consists of 56 different nationalities, there are a great variety of native costumes. Shown is the native dress of some ethnic groups.

The Art of Peking Opera Costumes

THE splendidly colourful costumes and accessories of Peking Opera are an important part of the artistic aesthetic of this national treasure. As the quintessence of Chinese culture, Peking opera occupies the top place among 360 other traditional operas. Peking opera, with a history of 200 years, covers all the important events of the nation's long history and has absorbed the essence of other traditional operas. The leaps in the development of Peking opera costumes