EFFECT OF CURRENT TRENDS IN CLOTHING AND TEXTILE EDUCATION ON HOME ECONOMICS TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
- INTRODUCTION
- Background of the Study
Clothing in its oldest sense includes a great range of materials that man wears or applies to his body. In addition to garment made of woven fabrics. Clothing is made from such varied materials as body point, for feathers and jewels.
The exact time we began to wear clothing is not known because perishable materials that early man used for clothing had not survived for archaelogist to study. At some point in man evolution however, he began to adorn himself with flowers, seeds, bones and other objects as done by some primitive tribes today. The art of textiles making began to develop in the old stone age (the period before 900 B.C) the first textile fabric was probably crude felt, made by compressing loose clumps of fleece from wild sheep later prehistoric people discovered that they could make a coarse yarn by rolling plant or animal fibres between the palms of the heads. The earliest known textiles made from yarn were fishing nets. The art of weaving yarn into fabric probably developed from the art of weaving strips of materials into mat and basket. People in the middle east began to weave cloth in simple 100mg.
Babatunde (2000) define textiles as the art of producing textiles materials using element of dsign like colour and motif to form theme of design pattern on the fabric materials.
The use of textile become profound by the prehistoric man when back of tress were beaten into reasonable soft pliable materials from raffia leaves to animal skin and hair clothing metamorphosed into gorgeous and elegant necessity.
Eyito (2011) discussing textiles, explain that textiles deals with beauty of the life which the end product is aesthetic through weaving, knitting, and dyeing through various approaches.
According to Rubbin (2012) clothing became an integral part of living and interior decoration than as other utilitarian materials. Thus textiles became useful for all state of the society workmen, labourers, sportsmen, ladies children, and distinguished, royal ties.
Textiles for clothing are not recent in Nigeria cotton, the commonest traditional materials for cloths weaving was used in Benin in the 13th century A.D. one of the Tsoede bronze the jebba bowman does not only were tailors dress like another Tsoedebrorro in a similar style but the elongated standing figure Tada’s garment was obvious made of traditional narrowship weaving, tailored dress must have existed in Nigeria for about six or more centuries by Adepegba (2009).
