Characteristics of the Local Malay Traditional Pelangi Cloth Motifs and Patterns Design
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This project established the characteristics of the local Malay traditional Pelangi cloth motifs and the specialty of their pattern design. The field research was conducted through observation at selected museums around Malaysia Peninsular, and interviews with curators and textile experts at the national craft institute, to gather the data and information through visual documentation of Pelangi cloth, for analysis purposes. The result discovered how the identification approach showed the recognition of motifs and patterns design was developed according to the Pelangi cloth traditional characteristics base on textile structure, motifs shape, pattern design arrangement, colour, technique, and product processes. This paper also shows the comparison between the local traditional Pelangi cloth with one of the traditional textiles in Malaysia to look into the relationships between them. This paper also successfully explains the types of traditional Pelangi cloth motifs more clearly since this textile industry has died out and is still not highlighted to the public.
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