Contemporary vision to inspire the tulip decoration to create a new style of filet crochet

Abed Allah, Ali; Ahmed, Asmaa

doi:10.21608/jguaa.2017.4747

Contemporary vision to inspire the tulip decoration to create a new style of filet crochet

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Ali Abed Allah ¹
Asmaa Ahmed ²

¹ Professor of Islamic Archaeology and Numismatics Department of Archaeology Faculty of Arts -Assuit University (Egypt)

² Home Economics Department- Faculty of specific Education- Assuit University(Egypt)

10.21608/jguaa.2017.4747

Abstract

The beginnings of this search term for the ideaoccurred to the researchers to create a new style of filet – crochet by inspiring the decoration of tulip flower during ottoman era to invent a new way to decorate textiles using crochet fillets, as one of the scholars is specializing in the field of Islamic Archaeology and worked as curator at the Museum of Islamic Art ,which gave him the opportunity to see the Islamic motifs closely and got amazed by these ornaments ,while the second scholar is specialized in clothing and textiles design and embroidery, which gives her the opportunity to benefit from the Islamic motifs of tulip flower to execute a new style in the implementation of this tracery style filet crochet on textiles

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