Creating contemporary textile hangings inspired by the Asiri heritage to preserve Saudi Arabian identity

Abstract

Folklore is considered a great wealth of literature, values, customs, popular and cultural knowledge, material traditions, plastic arts and music, a science taught in many Arab and foreign universities. Taking care of it is an urgent priority in our lives. The heritage of Saudi Arabia, especially the Asir region, is one of those arts that retains its timeless personality, which represents its ancient world, which should be studied. Textile hangings are one of the forms of fine art practices that have emerged since the earliest times, and have gone through successive stages where we find multiple forms in the art of Pharaonic, Coptic and Islamic, has come in each era loaded with different plastic and symbolic features due to reflect the philosophical and intellectual values of the era of his . Hence, the research problem can be summarized in the following question: To what extent can we use Saudi Asiri's heritage as a formative value in creating designs for textile hangings that fit with contemporary housing and contribute to the preservation of our heritage and Arab identity? Therefore, the research aims to study the aesthetics of Saudi Asiri heritage and its decorative forms because of its artistic richness as a source of inspiration for contemporary designs of textile hangings of the contemporary dwelling to keep pace with the development of our era and achieve functional value besides aesthetic value, and thus can enrich the process of communication between heritage and contemporary in the preservation of identity And heritage features. To achieve this goal, the researchers made a set of design ideas (10) designs using the decorative elements of the Asir region, which represents their heritage in creating designs for textile hangings. A proposed concept was developed to employ each design idea in the contemporary dwelling. The research methodology was based on the historical and experimental method. Study for some results.1- Heritage is a source of creativity and an infinite source of ideas for designers, where the designer derives his innovative design ideas according to the inspiration given by the source.2- Studying the characteristics and characteristics of the decorative elements of the Saudi Asiri heritage helped to reveal many ideas and plastic values in enriching the designs of textile hangings of the contemporary dwelling to achieve an aesthetic vision appropriate to the cultural and artistic climate we live in.

Keywords

• textile hangings; saudi heritage; asir; arab identity