Manipulating Indigenous Vegetable-Tanned Leather for Use in Crocheting Art
Muriel Ossei-Gerning,
Kwabena Asubonteng,
Vivian Korankye
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2023
Pages:
1-11
Received:
20 December 2022
Accepted:
25 January 2023
Published:
6 February 2023
Abstract: The study explores techniques and methods used in converting indigenous vegetable-tanned leather into yarns that can serve as an alternative material and convert the locally made yarns into crocheted ladies containers and footwear using different stitches. It embraces a qualitative research of which the approach implements two various approach’s (Descriptive and Studio-based research). The novelty of the study came from sampling, which consisted of Crochet Artisans, Leatherworks Teachers, and Leather Technologists within the above areas. The Crocheting Artisans were selected through the snowball sampling technique, whereas the Leatherwork Teachers and Leather Technologists were selected using the purposive sampling technique. The results from data gathered via the project experiments involved studio activities in converting the local vegetable-tanned leather into yarns and crocheting the yarns into ladies containers and footwear using different stiches were analysed and discussed. The study concludes that indigenous vegetable-tanned leather is suitable for use in making crocheting yarns and crocheting artefacts due to its strength, flexibility, and hook construction. Moreover, spiral cutting techniques came out to be the most appropriate technique for cutting leather into yarns for use in crocheting art. The study recommends that the use of leather in making crocheting yarns should follow these steps - the cutting of leather, softening of leather (wet pounding) and dyeing of leather (vat dye and the mixture of suede and insoluble dye). In addition, the study suggests that to create diversity in crocheting yarns, crocheting artefacts and expand leather usage, the potential leather should be tapped by both Crocheting and Leather Artisans.
Abstract: The study explores techniques and methods used in converting indigenous vegetable-tanned leather into yarns that can serve as an alternative material and convert the locally made yarns into crocheted ladies containers and footwear using different stitches. It embraces a qualitative research of which the approach implements two various approach’s (D...
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An Analysis of the Status of Japanese Zen Art Aesthetics in Ukiyo-e from Katsushika Hokusai to Van Gogh
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2023
Pages:
12-17
Received:
29 December 2022
Accepted:
16 January 2023
Published:
6 February 2023
Abstract: Japanese Zen aesthetics extends empty aesthetics to non-literature and art, using painting as an art form to express the unique Japanese aesthetics and the embodiment of Japanese Zen aesthetics in the artist's life experience. By combining traditional Japanese aesthetics with Zen aesthetics, the creators of Ukiyo-e have a god-like perspective that allows them to see everything in the world. The integration of Japanese Zen culture with Chinese Zen, history, and art directly influenced the development of Japanese Ukiyo-e art. This influence, and even a deep monopoly, has influenced the work of two hundred and sixty years of Ukiyo-e artists, from content to effects. These even affected the western art field across the ocean; for example, Van Gogh was keen on such an expression with the concepts of "mono no aware", "wabi-sabi", and "yugen". Through the development history of Ukiyo-e and the specific analysis of Katsushika Hokusai's Ukiyo-e paintings and his influences on Van Gogh, this paper has a detailed understanding, that is to say, all signs indicate the inestimable role of Japanese Zen aesthetics. In Ukiyo-e, the art of the Japanese Zen aesthetic appears in front of the world, along the following path: half-awake self-discipline, as in China's Song dynasty, painting white space aesthetics, thinking of extremely pure appeal, and harmony between man and nature, man and man, and nature and nature.
Abstract: Japanese Zen aesthetics extends empty aesthetics to non-literature and art, using painting as an art form to express the unique Japanese aesthetics and the embodiment of Japanese Zen aesthetics in the artist's life experience. By combining traditional Japanese aesthetics with Zen aesthetics, the creators of Ukiyo-e have a god-like perspective that ...
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