INNOVATIVE WISDOM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HAND-WOVEN FABRIC PRODUCTS OF THE PWO KAREN ETHNIC GROUP SANGKHABURI DISTRICT KANCHANABURI PROVINCE

Abstract

This research aims to 1) Study the wisdom of hand-woven fabric production of the Karen Pwo ethnic group 2) Develop a prototype hand-woven fabric product with the innovation of the wisdom of the Karen Pwo ethnic group and 3) Create added value of the prototype hand-woven fabric product with the innovation of the wisdom of the Karen Pwo ethnic group in Sangkhlaburi District, Kanchanaburi Province. It is a participatory action research, collecting data on participants and experts, by specifically selecting 30 people: 5 community leaders, 7 representatives of government agencies, 8 community development experts, 3 local scholars, and 7 people from the Karen fabric weaving career development group. They are qualified as weavers, are involved in the innovation of wisdom for the development of hand-woven fabric products, and have the willingness to participate in the activity. The interview form was used to analyze the content of the data and present it descriptively. The research results found that 1) The study of the wisdom of hand-woven fabric production by studying the history of the community in terms of the culture of dressing which is a narrow-waisted woven fabric woven on a waist loom, in which the woven fabric is determined by the usage, such as shirts, sarongs, and bags. 2) The development of a prototype hand-woven fabric product with the innovation of wisdom by extracting color from raw materials in the community, such as turmeric and Indian hemp, yellow and brown yarn is obtained. Fabric pattern development is done in collaboration with a group of fabric producers, applying the identity of the community's way of life to design with a computer program, resulting in the production of woven fabric with the orange fish pattern, the kat kradong pattern, and the weaving process with a loom, taking the jointly designed fabric pattern and weaving it into a piece of cloth. 3) Creating added value: taking woven fabric and transforming it into women's clothing.