Cultural heritage of the Egyptian form : an approach to the design tradition of hanging textiles

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This article considered the development of hanging textile design in Egypt.

The aim of the paper is to outline the Egyptian traditions and beliefs in design that characterize Egyptian hanging textile design authenticity.

The focus and scope on the development of design thinking within Egyptian cultural heritage required a reflexive approach on the anthropological practice of hanging textile design and its attendant socio-cultural relations which constituted the design strategies of hanging textiles in Egyptian history.

To achieve a better understanding of how have designs of hanging textiles in Egypt developed through the ages and the hanging design traditions of each age, the article weaved the hangings textile design traditions and three major historical periods of Egypt through examined the culture, art and design of hanging textiles in Pharaonic Egypt, Coptic era and Islamic Egypt.

Besides, the influence of weaving technology on Coptic style.

It also focused on the design traditions throughout the Egyptian history as the structural mechanism interwoven with relationship between culture heritage and textile designer.

It defined as the ideological applications and can be interpreted into cultural transmission.

The article shed light on the cultural significance of hanging textiles in Egypt.

From our review of three eras in Egyptian history, hanging textile design in Egypt has significant values and practices throughout history, the customs associated with its production reinforce the sense of identity and build up links with the Egyptian historical context.

Authenticity of the Egyptian hanging textiles through design traditions and culture regard as a matter of style, it is a way, a method, a mode of existence- it is a matter of how Egyptian hanging textiles were designed.

Culture systems have a profoundly important effect on the ontological status of an art work (modes of being of the art object).

Thus, hanging textiles in this case embodies some mode of being and cover the style of a specific period as a result of Egyptian society's ideology.

It is a kind of acceptance of the social circumstances during this time.