Colour coding and its meaning in Zulu women's beadwork in fashion design and decoration

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dc.contributor.advisorMathenjwa, L.F.
dc.contributor.authorXulu, Clerah Buyisiwe Simangele
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-08T10:12:41Z
dc.date.available2011-09-08T10:12:41Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.descriptionSubmitted for the fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts In the Department of IsiZulu Namagugu at the University of Zululand, 2002.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe topic of this thesis is informed by the writer's observation of the trend wherein modemist and traditionalist Zulu women tend to wear. as style, colourfully beaded outfits to decorate their fashion and wear. The colourful regalia is found in ceremonial dress, like isidwaba (cow-hide skirt) and other forms of dress made of cloth and textile. and decorated in beads. The decoration. as observed, is often designed to fit in a particular mode of interpretation, thus promoting the notion of fashion as form of communication interaction and definition of status. It is the hypothesis of the present writer that beads. designed and patterned in a specific way tend not only to communicate certain literal and figurative or poetic meanings, but also to declare fashion as a medium of communication, very much like ordinary speech does. In the context of this thesis Zulu womens' beadwork is a form of colour coding, literary and poetic speech communication and a declaration of fashion as a medium of social interaction, status, and social display. Thus, wearing their colourfully designed beadwork and fashion, Zulu women are always highly visible and recognisable. The thesis is thus confined to introducing the angle of fashion as statement and medium of literary and poetic communication in the creation of the modem and traditional status of a Zulu woman through beadwork. Colourcoding is key because the power of beadwork to communicateThe focus on Zulu Women is for the sake of creating a focus group of study and more so due to the observation by the present writer that in the context of modemist and traditionalist Zulu society, real or imaginary, it is women who wear more beads compared, to any other social group. meaningfully very much depends on the design and patteming of colours.en_US
dc.identifier.other268101
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10530/860
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectBeadworken_US
dc.subjectArt, Zuluen_US
dc.subjectZulu women--styles,en_US
dc.subjectZulu women--fashionen_US
dc.subjectColour codingen_US
dc.titleColour coding and its meaning in Zulu women's beadwork in fashion design and decorationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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