Eco-friendly Textile and Textile Products Development of Khambong Handcraft Group, Kalasin Province

Abstract

The research-based article on the Eco-friendly Textile and Textile Product Development for Khambong Handcraft Group in Kalasin Province was one of the social services and academic tasks which employed participatory research meth 31 ologies. The objectives were to develop eco-friendly textile and textile products as well as to increase 10 percent of the income of the Khambong Handcraft Group, Kalasin Province. The target group comprised 31 members of the group practitioners, 2 researchers and 3 design and market experts. The tools were structural interview guidelines, participative observation guidelines and evaluation forms. The research findings elucidated that in the motif and pattern design for the textile development, the technique of new-innovation leaf printing on fabric, the technique of ‘Kit’ using the leaf printing on warp thread and decorating with Jok technique for weft thread, and the technique of second leaf printing on the threads were implemented depending on suggestions of the experts. The ancient Kit patterns which were applied to designing patterns made the textile exquisite, novel and unique. In addition, for textile product development, the products with an existing customer base were selected to be developed into a blouse/shirt, bag and shoulder bag. The evaluation by experts indicated an average score of 4.54 for textile motifs and patterns and textile products, with a standard deviation of 0.06. It could be interpreted that the developed eco-friendly textile and textile products had a high level of suitability. For the income increment result, there was a 67.02% increase in 5-month data collection compared to pre-project income data (the year 2021), which presented that sale marketing promotion and online marketing via the Group’s Page have been exceedingly successful, as written in the project indicators.