Exploration of Hairstyles for Fabric Designing and Production

Textile designing and production over the centuries have become more sophisticated and intriguing. It has progressed rapidly and steadily in its quest to seek for more opportunities and possibilities for expression. As a result of this evolution, over the last decades, rather amazing things have come not only to contend the traditional landmark of textile designing and production, but to also reshape it. This paper explores textile design concepts based on indigenous and contemporary hairstyles by examining their intricate arrangements and styles. Design principles were applied to originate assorted textile designs, using a computer aided design software, Adobe Photoshop as a design tool. Consequently, nine textile designs based purely on hairstyles including elements, textures and some colour ways have been made.

A textile design catalogue of the results has been produced and some of the outcomes have been successfully printed onto appropriate textile materials. The qualitative research approach was used and the researchers specifically employed descriptive, experimental and observational research methods. Some of the results show that varieties of hairstyles are potential resources for textile design.