ABSTRACT
Hand is the decorative technique applied on the surface of textiles fabric, in the past, women in Kano Municipal embellished various household articles with hand tufting and depended on it for income . The extinction of the hand tufting craft resulted in much idle skilled personnel.
This research work titled―Development of Infant Hand-Tufted Thermal Insulation Wears in Kano Municipal‖ is a product of developmental research that developed three sets of hand-tufted infant thermal insulation garments.
The products were developed in three degrees of hand tufting densities: all over infant hand-tufted thermal insulation set, striped infant hand-tufted thermal insulation set, and appliqué worked overall infant hand-tufted insulation set.
The objectives of the research were to determine the mean rating of mothers on comfortability, textural preferences, aesthetic preferences, and acceptability of the by mothers in Kano .
The research was conducted in phases, phase 1 involved selection and testing of yarn, phase two is the developmental phase, and phase three contained collection of data.
1-9 points’ hedonic scale served as an instrument for the data collection on mother’s views administered to 30 sampled women that attended infant immunization in three primary health care units in Kano Municipal.
The data were analyzed by mean and standard deviation while hypotheses were analyzed by analysis of variance (ANOVA). The findings revealed that the white-colored all-over-hand tufted set had the high mean rating of mothers on comfortability and was considered as the most comfortable to infants from birth-1year.
Striped ash and the cream-colored set had a mean rating of mothers and had the most preferred texture. Golden colored appliqué overall set was the most aesthetic set and the most acceptable to mother’s rating in Kano Municipal.
Four null hypotheses were tested by Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) at the Alpha value of 0.05 level of significance showed that The P values of the entire four tested hypotheses were more than 0.05points, thus; the results were as follows: comfortability P = 0.49, texture P = 0.22
INTRODUCTION
Hand tufting is the decorative technique applied on the surface of textiles fabric, in the past, women in Kano Municipal embellished various household articles with hand tufting and depended on it for income generation. The extinction of the hand tufting craft resulted in much idle skilled personnel.
This research work titled―Development of Infant Hand-Tufted Thermal Insulation Wears in Kano Municipal‖ is a product of developmental research that developed three sets of hand-tufted infant thermal insulation garments.
The products were developed in three degrees of hand tufting densities: all over infant hand-tufted thermal insulation set, striped infant hand-tufted thermal insulation set, and appliqué worked overall infant hand-tufted thermal insulation set.
The objectives of the research were to determine the mean rating of mothers on comfortability, textural preferences, aesthetic preferences, and acceptability of the products by mothers in Kano Municipal.
The research was conducted in phases, phase 1 involved selection and testing of yarn, phase two is the developmental phase, and phase three contained collection of data.
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