Design Conceptual and Analysis of Tie and Knot Techniques use in Product, Furniture and Decorative Art

Abstract

What factors retain the knotting and tie local craft heritage and valuable in daily life and economic benefit? The fishermen's lifestyles focused on the interest of living with muddy slopes along the seaside area. Such traditional skills and techniques of tying the rope with various knots to the bamboo trunk, which can absorb and withstand the natural wind and wave force, is a method preserved to create a catcher. As a daily routine by bringing food in the household, a learning culture combined with practices as if the crafts become a natural seasonal translation resulted in memories, records, adapting, applying methods, making different ways, and adapting as a tool designed to sustain a living. Therefore, the decoding of ancestry wisdom and common routine practices, to a combination of procedure techniques, and suitable materials, would require creating a contemporary craft design with sustainable products worthy of higher quality for future development. Since handicraft variation in various regions is scattered with specific quality and market needs, the producer must develop to support the commercial growth and success for pertaining cultural preservation as well as responsibility for the environment. This research intended to develop contemporary art and design perception and value from a tie and knotting with an appropriate material such as bamboo ligament. The objectives have committed to investigating the original Knotting history and process, including the related material for knotting such as bamboo, rope and paper. This paper used the Practice Led Research approach as the primary method for this dissertation with mixed research objectives. This research provided the method and process of used tie and knotting to create creative decoration furniture by divided into four phases: exploration, inspiration and ideate, implementation, and delivery. The research result provides a context of Thai craft and folk arts, wisdom of knots and tie. Also, explain the importance of the arts aesthetic for creative craft and creative design. To clarify the relationship between handicrafts to contemporary designs and created the new design process model. This paper also demonstrates how to shifted local handicraft to contemporary designs. To sum up, this research will increase handicrafts in the local Thai community and preserve the Thai local.

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