The Development of women’s clothing styles from linen dyed with marigolds

Abstract

Developing women’s clothing design from marigold-dyed linen. The objectives of the project were : 1) to study about linen dying technique with marigold with various kinds of mordant, 2) to design and develop women’s clothing from marigold-dyed linen, 3) to study the satisfaction of representative samples for the women’s clothing design from marigold-dyed linen. Using simple random sampling method, analyzing the data with statistics, percentage, mean and deviation standard. The sample groups are selected from working women in Dusit District, Suan Chitlada Subdistrict and students from Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon, in total 100 participants. Research instruments are questionnaire and 2 women’s clothing prototypes, one was dyed with natural mordant and the other chemical mordant. The results indicated that most of the samples aged from 25 and above, single, graduated with bachelor degree, are general office workers and students and earn less than 15,000 baht. The result also revealed the satisfaction for the women’s clothing design from marigold-dyed linen, a design which was dyed with both natural and chemical mordant. The participants are satisfied with the modern design suited for working age and very useful, at a high level with means of 4.07 and 4.05, natural and chemical mordant respectively. Considering the overall result, the participant tended to be satisfied with natural mordant dyed dress more, with a mean of 4.07