The Extraction of Song Brocade's Characteristic Elements and the Application in Fashion Design

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In order to inherit and develop the valuable heritage of Chinese traditional clothing cultural-Song Jin, the characteristic elements, patterns and colors of Song Jin, were extracted. Summarized that the common themes of Song Jin were geometry, flowers, animals, utensils and meteorological theme and the Four Dayun, Six Dayun and Eight Dayun of geometry themes were the most classical patterns among all these themes; the common color combinations were divided into three categories. The first was the combination of harmonic colors which based on the yellow tone. The second was the combination of harmonic colors which based on the grey or blue-grey tone and used the reddish violet and blue as ornaments. The third often used the combination of contrasting colors which usually chose bright red, green and orange to highlight the main prints. On this basis, explore how to use the two characteristic elements in fashion design.

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484-487

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September 2013

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