This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of fabric embellishment. It defines embellishment as adding decorations to fabric to make it more attractive. Some key advantages are that embellishment can add beauty, value, and personality to fabrics. However, embellished fabrics can also be more expensive, less durable, and require more care. The document also explores popular embellishment techniques for both formal and informal wear in Pakistan and concludes that embellishment brings color and life to fabrics, though simplicity is also preferred.

1. Advantages and Disadvantages of
Fabric Embellishment
Sarwat Halima Haider

2. INTRODUCTION
• Embellishment is to make an item or a product
better than what it is already.
• It can be used in many things like; music, poetry, art,
textiles.
• Textile embellishment refers to the process of adding
color, pattern, texture or design to fabric through the
use of outside mediums such as thread, ribbon,
sequins, yarns, buttons, buttonholes and more
(Atwood, 2008).

3. Definitions
• To make something more attractive by adding
decorations
Or
• To make a story more interesting by adding details
which may not be true
• The embellishment on fabric can be achieved
through printing, tie-dye, batik, stencils, lamination,
bonding and dyeing (Oladipo).

4. Important Features of Embellishment
• Whether we want to embellish personal fabrics or it
is for commercial reason, there are many different
ways to embellish clothes.
• The most important thing which one keep in the
mind while embellishing the fabric is “principles of
arts”. The design should have
balance, proportion, emphasis, variety, movement,
rhythm, and harmony.

5. Important Features of Embellishment

6. One color different styles
• One color but different types of embellishment gives
freedom of purchase and decision making, from
color, style, cost, likes and dislikes etc.

7. Method

8. • Nature of the study:
• It was quantitative in approach. Survey method was
used.
• Population of the study:
• Teachers of textiles and clothing from Pakistan were
taken as population.
• Sampling Design:
• Samples were selected by non probility purposive
sampling, the population should be teacher of
textiles in any university of Pakistan.

9. • Data Collection Procedure:
• A questionnaire survey was self-administered among
teachers of textiles and clothing to identify the
significance of embellishment in fabrics.
Questionnaires were given to 20 teachers of textiles
from different areas of Pakistan. 15 of the
questionnaires were filled and given back to
researcher.
• Data Analysis:
• Data was analyzed thematically. Codes and themes
were drive from the detailed answer given by the
participants.

10. Result and Discussion

11. Term Embellishment Means
• Anything extra added to the fabric surface to
enhance its beauty.
• Make the fabric eye catching.
• Any addition surface beautification.
• Make fabric elegant and attractive with different
techniques.

12. Importance of Embellishment
• Embellishment is important as decorative detail or
feature added to something to make it more
attractive.
• Add value of the fabric.
• To make a product better than what it is already.
• To add beauty and increase profit in fabric.
• Make fabric good according to the taste and demand
of consumer.

13. Gender and Embellishment
• It is necessary for both male and females fabrics if
enhance the beauty.
• There must be some limits of embellishment for
male fabrics and even for female fabrics.

14. Self Confidence and Embellishment
• Inner satisfaction is important for self confident; if
embellishment gives inner satisfaction then yes it is
important.

15. Age and Embellishment
• Yes the age plays a vital role in the fabric
embellishment.
• It also depends upon the likes and dislikes of
individual which vary from individual to individual.
• Type of embellishment can have a concert with age
not embellishment alone.

16. Embellishment Role in Formal and
Informal wears
• Embellishment is important for both, depend on type
of embellishment we are using.
• Light embroidery, different pleats, gathered, dyeing
and printing can easily use in informal fabrics.

17. Advantages of Embellishment
• Identity.
• Creativity.
• Add beauty to the fabric.
• Increase the value of the fabric.
• Shows the personality of the wearer.
• Outlet for aesthetic expression.
• Attract consumers.
• Simple material can be convert into many styles and
shapes.

18. Disadvantages of Embellishment
• More expensive.
• Less durable.
• Difficult to handle like washing and ironing etc.
• Need extra care during handling.
• Adding details which may not be true.
• Addition of extraneous embellishment through
dishonesty.
• Heavily embellished fabrics are less wearable.

19. Favorite Embellishment
Formal wear
• Dabka with semi precious
stones.
• Sequence work.
• Zardozi work
• Gota work
• Beats work
Informal wear
• Buttons
• pleats,
• printing,
• light thread embroidery,
• Patch work
• Mirror work

20. Conclusion
• Products which enhance the beauty of the fabric is
known as fabric embellishment.
• The embellishment may be removable attached to
clothing by use of double-sided, hook and loop
fasteners, pins, snaps, button loops or other
buttoning attachments and embroidery motives.
• Embellishment gives elegant and wealthy look to the
garments.

21. Conclusion
• Fabric embellished while keeping the elements of
arts together to form a good design is very
necessary.
• It's very difficult to include much decoration in ever
day wearing fabric today because simplicity is
preferred by people. It is ease in mass-production, as
well as it is part of Modernism.
• In formal wear people prefer more colorful and
embellished garment.

22. Conclusion
• Keeping the eastern culture in Pakistan men’s
clothing is more embellished with embroidery and
other techniques then western dresses.
• Embellishment should be done according to the age
of the wearer.
• In the whole we can say that without embellishment
the fabric is like life without color.

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