Vol. 12, Issue 8 (2023)

Author(s):
J Keerthi and Jyoti V Vastrad

Abstract:
‘Stained Glass’ or filling glass is an art, with rich colours and beauty which was initially used in windows of cathedral of Europe and the Roman churches during 1100 A.D.-Stained glass windows also used as an educative resource to educate people about biblical stories during the early Roman period. In this research-stained glass were taken as design inspirational object and adopted using Corel DRAW-12 software. Collection of 100 stained designs, rendered 50 based on suitability to the saree embellishments under five categories i.e. animal, bird/insect, floral, stylized and geometrical. Selected designs were rendered with stencil printing technique on sarees and accepted and Saree II with bird motif ranked first & saree I with animal motif ranked second by the consumers.