Desing and production of cloths for Builsa north district dressmakers’ association

Abstract

This study aimed to design and produce a textile cloth for the dressmakers’ association in the Builsa North District in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Consequently, the study was rooted in the interpretive qualitative research approach, which entombed arts-based research design to interview, observe, produce and interact with twenty participants to evaluate the methodological preference. The research delved deeply into the knowledge of dressmakers in the Builsa North District, designed and produced a textile cloth for the association. The study revealed that the dressmakers employed thumbnail sketches, designed their motifs with Corel Draw application software before producing their fabric. Also, it showed that the design process involved idea development, thumbnail sketches, motif development and pattern arrangement. The pattern arrangement employed the full drop repeat and side repeat pattern arrangements. The study highlighted that the production stage included screen developing, fabric dyeing and printing on the fabric. The study employed mesh, squeegee, printing paste, photo emulsion, stencil, fabric, screen, stapler and kerosene as some of the tools and materials in the production of the textile cloth for the association. Judgment sample, or Expert sample, is a type of non-random sample that is selected based on the opinion of an expert. Results obtained from a judgment sample are subject to some degree of bias, due to the frame and population not being identical. The frame is a list of all the units, items, people, etc., that define the population to be studied. Judgement sampling is the noble to provide detailed information about the difficulties in obtaining the distinction. A random sample would provide less bias, but potentially less raw information. The downfalls of this system are significant as any non-random sample brings bias into question, which limits the University of Education,Winneba http://ir.uew.edu.gh xv types of statistical analyses that you may reasonably perform, and there are considerable limits to an expert. Similar studies should be conducted on the design and production techniques of other dressmakers’ associations in different geographical locations to understand their design and production process as the study recommended. A manageable sample size of twenty (20) individual was used in the study, five (5) Sandema, Wiaga, Chuchliga, Siniensi and Fiisa