TITLE:
Inspiration and Innovative Approach in Creating Textile Designs and Prints from Sekondi-Takoradi’s Masquerade Costume Designs
AUTHORS:
Kweku Safo-Ankama, Joshua Anim, Sumaila Mohammed Sumaila
KEYWORDS:
Masquerade Costumes, Textile Designs and Prints, Adaptation, Inspiration, Sekondi-Takoradi
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Textile Science and Technology,
Vol.9 No.1,
February
21,
2023
ABSTRACT: Masquerade culture is an essential part of Sekondi-Takoradi cultural
embodiment. The masquerade festival titled Ankos displays interesting costumes that have artistic elements of potent colour display and performances.
The masquerade costumes manifest intricate fabric decoration techniques for
example pleating, folding, gathering, smocking, hand and machine stitching and
the use of varied colour schemes. These decorative techniques make costume production laborious, tedious
and downtime constraints. In contributing to the innovative
approaches to creating textile designs and prints, the study explored the
inspirational possibilities of surface designs of the masquerade costume for textile
designs and prints. The art-based research design and direct observation as
research instrumentation were employed in the artistic creation for the study.
Adobe Photoshop was used in the simulation design processes. The study revealed
that the simulation design processes produced an innovative imitated visual
appearance of the masquerade costume and production processes from a
machine-stitched work to a hand-printed fabric. It is recommended that costume
makers adopt the contemporary possibility of using hand screen to print
hitherto the traditional laborious and tedious process of producing masquerade
costumes.