Decorative Elements Of Guizhou Batik’s Swaddling Clothes Research And Its Application In Fashion Clothes

This paper mainly discussed about the swaddling clothes in Guizhou Area and studied the swaddling clothes that mainly made by wax batik craftsmanship. The study on the swaddling clothes in this paper was conducted on the basis of field investigation on Guizhou Area and measurement and observation on the material object that reserved in the Museum of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. Firstly, this paper introduced and summarized the wax-printing swaddling clothes from styles, models, implied meaning of patterns, craftsmanship, etc. As there are many ethnic minorities in Guizhou Province, the wax-printing swaddling clothes made by each minority enjoys slight differences, therefore, the similar ones are classified into one category. Secondly, although the ethnic minorities in Guizhou Province live in the deep mountain areas, they are different in their personalities, psychology and cultures, thus producing distinctive decorations on the swaddling clothes. This paper aims to explore the connections between the rich decorates on the wax-printing swaddling clothes and decoration methods, and summarize the rules and combination methods of these decorative elements in words, so as to provide reference to the modern fashion design in our country. Combining the aesthetic way of modern people with high-tech skills to recreate or reuse the wax-printing decorative elements. This paper took the wax-printing swaddling clothes in Guizhou Area as the source of inspiration and designed a series of graduation project, as well as briefly introduced how to apply the design elements of wax-printing swaddling clothes into the graduation project.