Project Brief -
Taking a Craft/Culture and contemporizing it by keeping its essence in mind.
Taking a Craft/Culture and contemporizing it by keeping its essence in mind.
( Surface Texture/ Ornamentation Project )
The Kuna Indians - Also known as the Guna Yala are the largest Indonesian South American Tribe. They are situated in Central America near Panama Island.
This project aims at Revival & Resurgence of a Craft and its Culture of the Kuna Indians. It focuses upon different ways and techniques of contemporizing their traditional craft of making "THE MOLA" which is now the endangered last tribe of the Caribbean
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MOOD BOARD
The mood created by this entire tribe is very colourful, geometric and with layers.
- The whole concept of geometric designs comes from the fact that the Kuna Indians did body painting on themselves before textile came into market.
- The exact same body painting was incorporated on textiles in geometric shapes.
- “The Art Of Mola” consists layers of fabric which is one of its key essence thus keeping it intact.
- “The Art Of Mola” consists layers of fabric which is one of its key essence thus keeping it intact.
- The whole concept of Haziness comes because of their usual behaviour of vaping which thus connects to hallucination and haziness.
- Last important factor is the background and the foreground factor which they play by doing negative applique and/or positive applique. Thus, incorporating it in the understanding of background and foreground.
COLOUR BOARD
- The colours which inspired me the most keeping the aesthetics of the tribe are red, yellow, blue and black
- Since the Kuna Indians are the tribe which co relates every aspect/detail of products to their daily life, the colours were chose likewise.
- The colour Yellow is chosen to depict the importance of sun in their lives.
- Red suggests the colour of blood ( Also, the tribe worships a women when she hits puberty) - Kuna Indians being surrounded by water by all the sides, blue signifies water.
- Also, black represents the existence of the evil which they believe in terms of superstitions.
- Red suggests the colour of blood ( Also, the tribe worships a women when she hits puberty) - Kuna Indians being surrounded by water by all the sides, blue signifies water.
- Also, black represents the existence of the evil which they believe in terms of superstitions.
THE TRADITIONAL MOLA
The fabrics used here are cotton and Cancan. Since Kuna Indians are always inspired by their surroundings, usage of cancan made it more related to their aesthetics
- The technique used here is dyeing. The technique used on the top layer is KANOKO and the base layer is MARBELING. Since the mood depicted is geometric and hazy, these technique of shibori dyeing goes perfect.
- The usage of cancan helps the whole idea of background and fore- ground visible.
Contemporized Mola 1-
The fabrics used here are cotton and Cancan.
- To create and illusion of back- ground and foreground, that the base layer and the middle layer are dark colours. (the tone on tone effect)
- The technique used here is couching, it not only gives a texture to the surface of the fabric, but also cotemporizes the craft by keeping the motif in mind ( zig-zag)
- The fabrics used here are cotton and Cancan. Since Kuna Indians are always inspired by their surroundings, usage of cancan made it more related to their aesthetics
Contemporized Mola 2
- The fabrics used here are cotton and Cancan. Since Kuna Indians are always inspired by their surroundings, usage of cancan made it more related to their aesthetics
- The technique used here is dyeing. The technique used on the top layer is KANOKO and the base layer is MARBELING. Since the mood depicted is geometric and hazy, these technique of shibori dyeiing goes perfect.
- The usage of cancan helps the whole idea of background and fore- ground visible.
Contemporised Mola 3
The fabrics used here are cotton and Cancan.
- To create and illusion of back- ground and foreground, Reverse Applique was done in such a way that the second and the third layer of fabric both are seen.
- The technique used here is dyeing and embroidery. Simple technique of clamping or ITIJAMIE shibori was used to create a geometric pattern. The base layer which was black was later bleached
- Running stitches were done on the background and he foreground in addition to contemporise the craft in terms of adding texture to it.
