Using the Art of Quilling as a Visual Art to Enrich the Aesthetic Values of Women's Casual Jackets

Quilling is the process of creating designs by twisting and bending small strips of paper. It is one of the visual arts that emerged in ancient times since the advent of paper. Nuns and monks in the Renaissance would roll gilded and adorned paper from books in order to replicate the opulent gold embellishment of religious items. Later on, draping became a leisure hobby for affluent ladies throughout Europe. It is known that fashion design is one of the arts characterized by innovation, diversity, and a constant search for creativity, especially in the field of women’s fashion design, due to their constant keenness to acquire and own everything that is distinctive and innovative. Therefore, this research focused on using the art of quilling as a visual art that helps enrich the aesthetic value of women’s casual jackets in order to achieve the attractiveness and distinction that all women are looking for by implementing three casual jackets by using the art of quilling with different types of fabrics (instead of paper) after treating them using fabric stiffeners to ensure the stability of the quilling. The designs were presented to a number of (20) specialists in the field of the clothing industry and (25) Egyptian female consumers from the age group (20–35) to get their opinion about the implemented designs