Shi Lin Sani Clothing Research

Sani tribe as a branch of the Yi has a long history and splendid ancient culture, which this paper on the Sani costumes made a systematic study. As a comprehensive national costumes of folk art forms, not only with people’s daily lives, but also changes in national history and living environment interaction products; includes not only the development of a nation’s historical, cultural, or convey their ideals, but also yearning for a better silent language. Sani dress colorful, exquisite workmanship, and its design patterns and color matching has its inner meaning, is a kind of rich local flavor and unique national characteristics and cultural quality.This paper focuses Shilin area Sani research. Firstly, the domestic and foreign academic research on the Sani people to sort out and found that there are two problems:first, the historical research conducted mostly on clothing documented and described, and are quite simple, not very complete. Second, modern studies are mostly on its color, pattern, embroidery and other aspects of cultural symbols, and not the Sani apparel elements applied to the design of modern dress; article Sani background of life made a comprehensive presentation from history to geographical distribution as well as natural, geographical and social living environment, starting from the root of a comprehensive understanding of the Sani people; pair Sani traditional men’s, women’s and children’s apparel system introduced; also make specific Sani apparel beauty classification, including styles, materials, technology, color and decoration, pattern aspects; papers to Sani traditional culture and modern art and design elements combined, respectively, from graphic design and fashion design two aspects of the application; Finally, specific market research and a range of design options; summary of the full text as well as traditional and cultural development prospects Sani.In this paper, field research, literature search, comprehensive analysis and other research methods, Sani traditional dress shape, decoration, materials related to the study of ethnology, sociology, semiotics, color science, clothing materials and design art and other aspects of a comprehensive analysis of knowledge Sani traditional costumes and traditional cultural elements and Sani graphic design and costume design combine not only carry forward the traditional culture, but also enriched the research field of modern design.