USE OF TRADITIONAL KAZAKHSTAN GIRTH WEAVING MOTIFS IN NEW DESIGNS

Traditional “girth” (kolan) and “card or tablet weaving” (？arpana) have begun to lose their old purpose of usage and importance as well. Therefore, they need to be adapted and improved so as to meet current conditions of life and expectation of people. The most important element of handicrafts is that it has motifs that expresses emotions, wishes and thoughts without words. Motifs are the concrete object of a nation that has a certain meaning to the national culture. The aim of the study was to investigate girth and card weaving that have been vanishing, and find a way to apply motifs used in Kazakh’s weaving into girth and card weaving, and transform them into new design by combining with different motifs. Therefore, in this study, weaving motifs used in Kazakhs culture were examined and then tablet weaving patterns were prepared. Based on the weaving pattern, tablet weavings was combined with felt and tulle and a collection consisting of four pieces was prepared