نسيج الفركة كمصدر لإثراء القيمة الوظيفية و الجمالية لمفروشات الأطفال في مرحلة المهد

الملخص EN

Al-Farka fabric as a source to enrich the functional and aesthetic values of children's upholstery in the cradle stage

Farka weaving is one of the most important handicrafts that depend in its raw material on silk or cotton threads, various forms of fabrics are made from them, the most famous of which are the scarf and the sheets and are worn by women in Upper Egypt and Sudan, traditional and limited to the traditional form of the shawl, although it is a source of income for many families in the city of Naqada, Qena governorate, which is famous for this craft.

Currently, there is a great interest from the state to pay attention to traditional and handmade crafts, foremost of which is the fabric of farka, and an attempt is made to employ various products, but on a small scale and as individual pieces that are displayed in specialized exhibitions such as Diyaruna Gallery, while the fabric of farka is employed in the field of home furnishings in general and children's furnishings in the cradle stage in particular, and accordingly this research was an attempt to take advantage of the fabric of farka as a source to enrich the functional and aesthetic value of children's furniture in the cradle stage.

This research aims to produce contemporary home upholstery for children in the cradle stage by using the fabric of farka, and to enrich the functional and aesthetic value of children's upholstery in the stage of the cradle by using the fabric of fraka.

The results of this research have demonstrated the possibility of employing the fabric of farka as a source to enrich the functional and aesthetic value of children's upholstery in the cradle stage, it found statistically significant differences between the pieces of upholstery executed using the fabric of farka in achieving the functional aspect according to the opinions of specialists, and the ten products executed using the fabric of farka obtained an acceptance rate, high by specialists as well as by (mothers) as consumers, and the upholstery pieces executed have high aesthetic values and suitability for use as upholstery for children in the cradle stage.