Aesthetics of hand-crafted pottery in Tunis village in Fayoum oasis as a source of inspiration for lady’s fashionable textile printing designs

Fayoum is one of Egypt’s oldest Cities, originally called Shedet in Ancient Egypt The village of Tunis in Fayoum is one of the cities that was distinguished in the manufacture of ceramics and pottery, whose history extends in the civilizations of Egypt throughout the ages due to its fertile Nile environment that provided the primitive village artist with simple, primitive natural materials such as Nile silt , The pottery school in Tunis Established by Swiss artists, Evelyne Porret in the 1970s, this school, which trains adults and children in the local pottery in traditions using local materials enriching it with their own drawing folk style to create their special motifs and design, that Which makes these creations a rich source of popular units and topics for textile printing design . Hence the research question is Can these creations of primitive arts on hand pottery produced in the village of Tunis be a source of inspiration for lady’s fashionable textile printing design? The research aims to: Shed light on a group of motifs of pottery drawings in Tunis village as a rich source for folk art native hand drawings with artistic analytical study. Creating a group of designs inspired of this source of inspiration to be applied on lady’s fashionable textile with a questionnaire to show the customer preference of the design ideas.

The research importance:

Benefiting from aesthetics of folk art in hand pottery of Fayoum -Tunis village as a source of inspiration of fashionable textile printing designs for ladies.

Research methodology:

Descriptive and analytical study for motifs of pottery drawings in Tunis village (themes of workings- expressing values of line by hand drawing- color)

- An application study: by achieving a group of designs inspired of hand pottery drawings art in Tunis village be applied on lady’s fashionable textile

- A questionnaire shows the customer preference of the design ideas.