The Application Of Neoteric Folk Costume Symbols In Modern Home Textile Design

Semiotics is a science that used to study the symbols, the study object of semiotics including the nature and changing rules, various significance of symbols, the relationship between different symbols and the people's behavior .From the perspective of semiotics, all meaningful things can be called symbols. The garment ,as a reflection of the social culture, its style changing, material using, color matching , pattern choosing and so on could record the particular period of productivity and technology level and reflect people's aesthetic ideas and life interest.The folk costume in Han nationality is an independent dress system, it has formed its own cultural background and style during historical inheritance and development. From the perspective of time, the neoteric history of garment defines as later Qing Dynasty and the republic of China. In this period, the dress in big cities received a great influence from western countries, in the countryside, due to various limitation of geographical environment and so on, the western dress culture was not as popular as big cities, so most dress in countryside were inheritance form traditional garment. In this article, the concept of neoteric folk costume tends to garment form countryside. Take an analysis with the theory of semiotics on the meaningful elements of costume, including five parts: shapes, color, texture, apparel pattern and craft and refining the shape symbols, color symbols, material symbols, apparel pattern symbols and craft symbols.The Home Textile in our country is a traditional and new industry; it has a wide developing space. In this article, after analyzing the present situation in home textile design of Folding Stone Bridge and realizes that there is a certain practical significance about using Chinese elements in home textile design; it will make the modern home textile with more cultural connotation. The neoteric folk costume symbols belong to the Chinese elements, it will take to the modern home textile with endless creative inspiration. After summarizing, there are two ways that uses neoteric folk costume symbols into home textile design, that is, direct application and indirect application. At the same time, we could get help from the modern design methods of Scattering and Restructuring, Cutting and Dislocation, Subtraction, Addition and Combination of Chinese and Western, and apply the neoteric folk costume symbols into modern home textile design more flexibly.