Designing of apparel using traditional gond painting motif

Gond is one of important tribe of Madhya Pradesh. Gond painting is associated with gond tribe, which has unique motifs, signature patterns, colour combination. Traditionally Gond painting was done on walls of the home to decorate them. People belonging to Gond tribe think that these painting bring good luck to them. In this study an attempt was made to use these traditional gond painting motifs for screen printing on apparel. Different motifs were selected from gond painting which were adapted using computer aided designing so that they can be used for screen printing. The design arrangement of motif for apparel was selected by panel of judges. The apparels were printed using screen printing method by selected colour combination for the motif. The designed apparel was evaluated by the consumer for its acceptability and were highly appreciated and accepted.