“O sertão vai virar mar”: a flora da caatinga como elemento para estamparia têxtil utilizada na confecção de biquínis

Abstract

The proposal of this project consisted in the association of the knowledge of surface design and elements of the cultural nature of the Northeast, and aims to create prints inspired by the diversity of the Sergipe’s Caatinga flowers on textile surfaces. These propose a transposition of the aesthetics of the semiarid to the beach fashion, adding a regional identity to the product and making it unique. It is a dip in the symbolic-representative universe of the northeastern backwoods as an inspiring element for the elaboration of a beach fashion collection. For this purpose, the chosen flowers were painted in watercolor with the objective of reliably portraying their tonal gradation, giving it a realistic character and expressing the artistic perception of the author. Added to this, they were also digitally drawn, with only lines, which refer to the xylograph matrices, an artistic style that represents the popular illustrations of the Brazilian Northeast, and therefore, being a characteristic of cultural and regional identity, thus creating rapports, from which six prints were developed and apllied on the Cirre Lycra.Later, bikinis were made.