AESTHETICS OF COLOUR AND DRAPERY IN DECORATIVE ARTS: A SURVEY OF SILK- LINEN FABRICS DESIGN AND DECORATION IN NIGERIA

The study delves into an aspect of decorative arts that deals with the use of draped coloured silk-linen fabrics for design/decoration. It also shows how the colours and the drapery of silk-linen fabrics help to stimulate and delight our senses when seen in sitting rooms, halls, churches, social arena like wedding ceremony, rendezvous, and other places where these coloured silk linen fabrics are used for decorations. The major aspect of the study is based on the effects of colours, and drapery (that is also known as folds) of silk-linen fabrics in the interior and exterior decorations. The aesthetic aspect of these silk-linen fabrics in their varying colours and drapes in places such as the inside of churches, inside of halls, outside of social arena as festivals, inside of our homes (sitting rooms), and so on is looked into to show how these coloured silk-linen fabrics decoration/designs in their colour variations, interplay and folds, beautify the entire background of the above mentioned places. Photographs of different draped coloured silk-linen fabrics installations were useful visual devices for analysis and interpretation in the study. However, the absence of these designs of draped coloured silk-linen fabrics in any of the above mentioned places makes them not to conform to the aesthetic needs of out time especially now that fashion is the order of the day and the ultimate. Without doubt, the effects of colours and drapery of silk-linen fabrics decoration on these places in their opulent splendours and adornment stimulate and delight our sensory perceptions.