Ethnic Costumes Research Articles

Application of Nanomaterials in Visual Effects of National Costume Pattern Design

Nanomaterials refer to new materials that are constructed from a unit structure of one to one hundred nanometers according to certain organizational rules. The purpose of this paper is to apply nanomaterials in the study of visual effects of ethnic dress pattern design. This paper first gives a brief overview of ethnic costumes, including the status quo, development, characteristics of ethnic costumes, and also studies the pattern design and visual effects of ethnic costumes, as well as the image shaping of pattern design. Then, the content of nanomaterials is elaborated. Finally, nanomaterials are applied in the design of ethnic costumes, and they are compared with traditional ethnic costumes, and the functionalities of the costumes and the visual effects of pattern design are observed, respectively. The results show that the overall average score of the visual effect test of ethnic dress pattern design using nanomaterials reaches 8.54 points, which verifies its effectiveness.

The Revitalization Design of Regional Ethnic Cultural Capital in a Sustainable Perspective: The Case of Traditional Chinese Garment Yunjian

The formation of the globalization pattern of regional ethnic culture brings new opportunities for the sustainable development of cultural capital. In order to solve the problem of mismatch between the high development demand of regional ethnic costumes and their traditional design methods, this study proposes an innovative design method for regional ethnic traditional costumes, taking the Yunjian, a cloud-shaped sash-like shoulder garment as an example. Firstly, we deeply explored the historical and cultural connotation of the Yunjian through fieldwork and literature research. Then we sorted out and refined its elements, colors and structural features. We classified the patterns according to the composition forms and clarified the path of pattern creation based on fractal theory. We combined the representative elements of Yunjian with the fractal algorithm and proposed the design model of Yunjian fractal pattern. Finally we verified the feasibility of the proposed design method through design practice. The results show that the Yunjian garment created by the method of this paper can better reflect the characteristics of fashion art and ethnic culture.

베트남 흐몽(Hmong) 복식 트리밍의 미적 효과에 관한 연구

The Vietnamese Hmong have developed their own clothing culture, and their creativity is well expressed, especially in terms of decoration. Despite the unique decorative characteristics of Vietnamese Hmong clothing, research on it is insufficient, so there is a need for specific research on the decorative aspects expressed in Vietnamese Hmong costumes. This study aims to provide essential information on ethnic costumes by focusing on the decorative trimming of Vietnamese Hmong costumes, examining the expression types and characteristics, and understanding the aesthetic effects. In Vietnam

Consumer Psychology of Ethnic Clothing Based on Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making and Internet of Things

The consumer psychology and consumption behavior of ethnic clothing is often a special category of modern clothing consumption, which has a significant impact on the composition of future consumer culture. The research on the consumption psychology of ethnic costumes will help us to better grasp the legal direction of the development of cultural trends. The purpose of this paper is to study the consumer psychology of ethnic wear based on artificial intelligence decision-making and the Internet of Things. After an overview and theoretical analysis of the existing results, the framework of the research and the direction to start are determined. In order to understand the basic situation of the current market, the main multichannels of ethnic wear are classified, and the preference information for these functions is explored in the minds of consumers. Use decision-making process research tools to quantify decision-making process data for all ethnic apparel consumption. The research obtains specific data through questionnaires and grasps the mass psychology of ethnic costume consumption. And then build a scientific system to promote the consumption of national costumes. Research has proved that the creation of cultural scope and the enrichment of commodity types have a very positive impact on the consumption of ethnic clothing and can become one of the important breakthroughs in promoting the consumption of ethnic clothing.

National Costume Art Design Optimization under the Background of Artificial Intelligence Decision Making and Internet of Things

As the most external symbolic representation of the nation, national costumes are an integral part of the wonderful culture of the Chinese nation. Our country has many ethnic minorities and has a unique national costume culture, which provides rich resources for the art design of ethnic costumes. This paper uses artificial intelligence technology and Internet of Things technology to design a national costume element library system. In this system, users can match national costume suits according to their own preferences, and they can also transmit national culture to people through this system. After the system is designed, the system performance is optimized by interactive algorithms, and the availability of the system is verified by testing system security, stress resistance, concurrency, etc. Through the verification of the system designed in this paper, the national costumes designed by innovative technology can be copied in batches, which enhances the innovation of national costume design in our country and has high production efficiency. It is finally proved that the design results of this paper meet the design requirements.

Approximation and Preciseness: The Traditional Measurement and Cutting of Ethnic Mongolian Costume in China

Ethnic costume involves systematic traditional culture and diverse folk wisdom. While the modernized measurement and standardized size concepts have influenced the conventional measure and transitional sewing technology in the fabrication practice of ethnic Mongolian costume in modern times. The tradition versus modernity have always been the controversial idea among local society and negotiation in inheritance of traditional culture, as well as attracted great academic interests. In earlier times, as part of the collective memory, traditional Mongolian measurement means not only ensuring the social-cultural continuity but also reflects the invisible discipline power in their own communities, in which facilitated the trade with other culture and material abundance. Conversely, today, the transformation of measurement and cutting artistry of Mongolian costume plays an self-healing role in community. Locally, conventional fabricating techniques symbolized the essence of nomadic culture and social values of exquisite handicraft. Traditional sewing and cutting techniques somehow represented the individual experience of self-worth and social wealth in local community. This paper, examines the innovation of traditional ethnic costume culture and dynamic developing costume market, that reconstructed the traditional culture and diversification of essential cultural need. Meanwhile, this paper illustrated the respect to transitional fabricating craftsmanship as an ethnic costume consumer and a member of ethnic Mongolian culture. Also, the paper discussed in terms of case studies of Mongolian costume practitioners in local society who was part of the costume culture.

Application on the Luminescence Characteristics of Nanoaluminate Rare Earth Long‐Lasting Luminescent Composite Materials in the Field of Ethnic Clothing

In the changing process of garment development, nanoaluminate rare earth material has unique advantages as a new garment material, such as easier preservation and brighter color, changing the visual beauty of traditional clothing. In order to in‐depth study the role of nanoaluminate rare earth long afterglow luminescent composite materials applied to ethnic costumes, this article uses material preparation methods, numerical analysis adjustment methods, and equipment parameter introduction methods to analyze nanoaluminate rare earths and simplify them and create a luminous composite material that can be used in the field of ethnic minority clothing. To study the luminescence characteristics of the composite material, CXHP samples with different doping concentrations of Cr ions were irradiated with an ultraviolet lamp with a center wavelength of 225 nm for 4.5 minutes, and after 12 minutes attenuation, the afterglow emission spectrum was studied. The results show that the sample has near‐infrared afterglow emission ranging from 645 nm to 740 nm, and the two emission peaks are located at 680 nm and 700 nm, respectively. The performance of its application on clothing was studied again. The water consumption in the experiment was 1500 ml, and the grams of composite material added for the three times were 0.6 g, 1.2 g, and 1.8 g, respectively. The hanging dyeing method was adopted during the experiment. Through experiments, it can be obtained that when the composite material is 1.8 grams, the visual effect is more similar to the hue, brightness, purity, and other aspects of the clothing. This way, when combined with the composite material for secondary design, a better visual effect will be achieved. From the practical application level, it has been verified that composite materials can be used in ethnic costumes.

The sacred image of a horse in modern ethnic costume

The sacred image of a horse in modern ethnic costume

Ethnic Costume and Custom Interaction in Uzemchin Mongolian of China：A Folkloric Perspective

Costume carries the traditional ethnic culture, and expresses the significance of cultural representation and the collective memory of ethnic groups. Participating in traditional ritual activities and producing cultural practices has become a considerable part of maintaining social relations and inheriting conventional culture in contemporary society. People wear ethnic costumes to participate in the process of social interaction and inherit their cultural traditions. At present, the myriad academic studies pay attention to the historical changes and the category of shaping technology of traditional clothing of Uzemchin Tribe by describing folk customs and sorting historical documents, and analyzing the cultural connotation of clothing by means of patterns and symbols. Folk custom constitutes an important element of life, and also weaves the social order network. This article explicates the cultural integration functioning and representation of ethnic costumes from the perspective of custom interaction of Chinese Mongolian Uzemchin Tribe, and grasps the cultural and social functions of ethnic costumes in modern society. In this research the specific practice of Mongolian costumes in social interaction, the role played by folk events and the expression of costume feelings are presented in the form of ethnography of qualitative research to analyze the content of maintaining social relations of costumes. It involves the traditional reproduction and preservation caused by modernization and globalization. The results manifest that the participation of ethnic costumes can better maintain local folk traditions and regulate local social relations.

The secret of egg white fabric: an investigation of its fabrication and properties

The egg white fabric of the Dong Minority exemplifies their wisdom and represents rich regional features. It is renowned for its superior properties, especially its fabulous luster and excellent handle. However, the production method is rarely documented and instead has been handed down mostly by oral communication, and thus it is shrouded in mystery. In addition, due to low economic efficiency, a secret prescription and the challenges brought about by modern technology, this unique ethnic costume is threatened by extinction. Should this traditional handicraft be preserved or sacrificed? In this study, the secret of egg white fabric is solved by investigating its fabrication and properties. It is obvious that making egg white fabric involves complicated handiwork and numerous processes, including dyeing, fixation, brightening and starching; nevertheless, it has good physical properties. The experimental results indicated that egg white fabric has excellent texture, good thermal insulation, abrasion property and color fastness to laundering. Hence, this provides valuable inspiration for designers and manufacturers to produce unique and sustainable products.

Fine‐grained semantic ethnic costume high‐resolution image colorization with conditional GAN

Grayscale image colorization, especially for ethnic costume images, is highly challenging due to its rich and complex color features. The existing image colorization methods usually take the costume image as a whole in practical applications that lead to the ignorance of the semantic information of different parts of the costume. It is known that each part's color distribution of the ethnic costume is different. So, the color mapping of other parts is also diverse, which is determined by distinctive ethnic characteristics. This study introduces fine-grained level semantic information and proposes a high-resolution image colorization model for ethnic costumes targeting enhancement, inspired by semantic-level colorization. The semantic information of different regions of ethnic costumes has a significant impact on the performance of the coloring task. Using Pix2PixHD as the backbone network, we create a new network architecture that maintains color distribution correspondence and spatial consistency of costume images using fine-grained semantic information. In our network, we take the splice result of fine-grained semantic for ethnic costume and grayscale image as the conditions and then feed them into the generative adversarial networks. We also discuss and analyze the influences of the grayscale channel and fine-grained semantics on discriminator. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method performs well compared with other state-of-the-art automatic colorization methods.

Recognition Algorithm of Popular Elements of Ethnic Minority Traditional Clothing Based on PCA

Image recognition of ethnic minority costumes is helpful for people to understand, carry forward, and inherit national culture. Taking the minority clothing image as the research object, the image enhancement and threshold segmentation are completed; the principal component features of the minority clothing image are extracted by PCA method; and the image matching degree is obtained according to the principle of minimizing the Euclidean distance. Finally, the calculation process of the PCA method is optimized by a wavelet transform algorithm to realize the recognition of popular elements of minority traditional clothing. The comparative experimental results show that the PCA + BP neural network algorithm is better than the other two recognition algorithms in recognition rate and recognition time.

Virtual tour of Circassian costume exhibition created by Madina Hatsukova

This article explores the works of the famous Kabardian fashion designer Madina Alisagovna Hatsukova, whose costumes are worn by the guards of the King of Jordan, artists of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, prominent statesmen of the Chechen Republic, popular singers and musicians, and numerous ladies for their wedding ceremonies. The article represents a panoramic overview of the works of Madina Hatsukova, taking into account all aspects of interest of the designer. Description is given to various types of activity of the fashion designer – from hand embroidery and lace weaving to creating sewing patterns and scientific research on decoding of the ornaments in the museum samples of ancient costumes. This publication is inspired by the Madina Hatsukova’s personal exhibition “Princess of the Sun”, held in the North Caucasus branch of the State Museum of Oriental Art in Maykop in September-October 2021. The novelty of this article consists in comprehensive analysis of the works of Madina Hatsukova, which are widely known in North Caucasus and not so much to the Russians audience interested in modern ethnic costume. Although Madina’s works are intentionally limited to the traditional patterns and configuration, she experiments with different types of fabrics, their combinations and color solutions. National costume for a symbol of cultural revival, rather than a symbol of the past; it is the symbol of ethnic identification. Madina Hatsukova contributes to high symbolic load of the traditional costume, forms empathy of not only Circassians, but the entire multicultural population of the Russian Federation.

«Проявленная этничность» в семейных фотоальбомах бурят

The article is devoted to the visual discourse of Buryat ethnicity in private photo collections of Buryats. The authors find out that the visual images of ethnicity and the principles of the family tree in the creation of family photo albums were transformed. Iconic codes demonstrate the hybridity and fluidity of the ethnic tradition, its performative nature in modern social conditions. Materials for the article were collected during field expeditions in the Irkutsk Region (2012–2013) and in the Republic of Buryatia (2019–2020). The research methods were visual analysis of photographs and narrative biographical interview. The research methodology was based on the works of R. Barth and D. Harper. The phenomenon of developing ethnicity in photographs is expressed in a visible and invisible three-layer structure: in iconic codes – ethnic costume, ethnic dwelling, ethnic rituals; in the hierarchical arrangement of pictures at album pages; and in biographical stories of the collection owners about photography. As a result, photographic materials from private photo archives are fragmentary for visualizing of Buryat ethnicity, but due to their typicality, they are structured as a representation of changes in Buryat corporeality. «Developing» ethnicity for the sake of presenting oneself to others existed until the 1950s. It goes into the dualism of the Buryat and Soviet features. The disappeared ethnic identity in photo albums by the end of the 1980s was undergoing a performative change from the 2010s. «Developing» ethnicity is expressed in the interest of the Buryats to the details of their ethnic presentation.

A Study on the Implementation of the ADDIE Model in the Ethnic Costume Design Curriculum

A Study on the Implementation of the ADDIE Model in the Ethnic Costume Design Curriculum

Producing Authenticity: Ethnic Costumes in Contemporary Inner Mongolia

Abstract This article examines multivocal Mongolian costumes to shed light on the performance and representation of Mongolian identities in China. In particular, it explores the promotion of Mongolian costumes in online media spaces, in commercial cultural studios, and at state-sponsored heritage events. The article argues that the discursive construction of authenticity and cultural hegemony overshadows and hierarchises heterogenous Mongolian cultures and identities. The article also finds that the meanings taken on by Mongolian costumes contest and go beyond those inscribed by the state. The study aims to improve our understanding of minority cultural transformation in post-Mao China and the agency of minority Mongols who reshape their evolving cultural forms.

Традиционный костюм эвенов как сакральный текст культуры

The paper aims to reveal features of the traditional Even costume as a sacred text. Symbolic functions of an ethnic costume are examined. It is shown that ornamental, chromatic and acoustic semantics of the traditional Even costume represents the national worldview. Scientific originality of the study involves a comprehensive analysis of symbolic elements in the traditional Even costume. The research findings are as follows: the Even ceremonial costume, possessing symbolic and sacral meanings, performs the function of a mediator between the real and the symbolic worlds.

Virtual Reality-Based Visual Interaction: A Framework for Classification of Ethnic Clothing Totem Patterns

From the perspective of visual interaction, this paper examines the ethnic characteristics of visual features clothing and the extraction area of the totem ethnic clothing. We employed a feature extraction approach based on extensive data colour and used a classifier to identify the various totems of the ethnic clothing image. We further used PS to extract colour intensities and the DBSCAN algorithm to extract the characteristics of various ethnic colours and examine the phenomenon of judging culture research methods with colour characteristics. With the help of PS, the colour value of multiple images is proposed to provide a scientific and rigorous research method for ethnic minority colour research, improving the efficiency of the DBSCAN clustering algorithm for colour extraction. The obtained results can assist designers to reproduce colour images in their design work. We employed the support vector machine (SVM) to build a classification model to classify and recognize the extracted feature algorithm's fusion features. The study found that the fusion feature classification and recognition model have higher recognition accuracy. This research lays a good foundation for the information processing of ethnic costumes and contributes to the inheritance and protection of ethnic costume culture.

Modern Crimean Tatar national costume: succession and novelties (based on the example of Crimean dress designers)

This article analyzes the modern Crimean Tatar costume from the perspective of succession of the traditional elements. The author systematizes general approaches towards design of the traditional and modern costume, indicating the characteristic features. At the present stage, the elements of the traditional Crimean Tatar costume are growing in popularity. Interpretation and modern stylization of the traditional elements of national costume leads to the formation of the unique style. The leading phenomenon in the approach towards design of the modern national costume is the scientific basis, which helps to preserve the traditional elements. The object of this research is the modern Crimean Tatar costume, while the subject is decorative and graphic approaches towards design. The primary task consists in determination of the principles of creation of Crimean Tatar image and its implementation into Crimean modern culture. The novelty of this research is defined by insufficient examination of the modern Crimean Tatar costume on the scientific level, although actively implemented into modern youth culture. The creative direction in the works of modern Crimean Tatar designers is divided into three approaches: verbatim reproduction of ethnic costume (mostly used wedding gear and theater costumes), authorial interpretation, and avant-garde approach, using metaphors as the basics of style. It is noted that in the approach with allusive metaphors it enough to complement modern costume with headwear similar to the traditional to add national flavor to the image. The author underlines the importance of development of modern Crimean fashion in all three directions, as each approach has a particular function.

Research on image recognition of intangible cultural heritage based on CNN and wireless network

The image of national costumes is the main way of presenting the digitalization of intangible cultural heritage and provides important resources for educational informatization. How to use modern information technology to efficiently retrieve images of national costumes has become a hot research topic. Due to the diverse styles and colorful colors of ethnic costumes, it is difficult to accurately describe and extract visual features. In view of the above problems, this paper proposes an image recognition model of intangible cultural heritage based on CNN and wireless network. First of all, the clothing images of ethnic settlements and ethnic museums are acquired through wireless network transmission, so as to construct an image material library of intangible cultural heritage. Secondly, the CNN algorithm is used to train and optimize the national costume image samples, extract the high-level semantic features of the national costume image and finally realize the efficient retrieval of the national costume image educational resources. This model lays a good foundation for the informatization of national costumes and contributes to the inheritance and protection of intangible cultural heritage.