Development of Motifs through the Fusion of Traditional Arts of Warli and Phulkari

Arts have been used to showcase the styles of the artists. Not just today, art has been a way to represent the lifestyle of the artistic tribe to the world since the early days. As the centuries have passed and as modernization has begun, these arts have lost their importance and charm. These arts are seen very little and there is very little whereabouts of the artists of these ancient arts, as Hollander (1992) documents that modernization of fashion has presented a need to revive the ancient concept of clothes being basically as interesting as the art itself. It is said that fashion is a way to express ourselves, in this research we will try to make fashion a medium to revive our age-old traditional arts. There has been prior research towards reviving the lost arts through fashion, we shall be discussing a few in this research as well. We have reviewed a few Indian arts and found two arts that are similar yet different and these are Warli and Phulkari. Warli is an ancient art of a tribe of Maharashtra, while Phulkari is the traditional art of Punjab. Warli is an art of painting whereas Phulkari is an art of embroidery. The fusion of these arts will be very interesting to see. We fused these two arts to develop 30 motif designs and out of these 30 designs, the top 15 will be selected on the basis of the data collected through a questionnaire. These top 15 designs can be used on apparel or any other form as considered suitable by the consumer and thus can be a very good way of reviving our traditional heritage.