Do galpão ao salão: o pala gaúcho como referencial na criação de design têxtil

Abstract

The present research aims at developing studies of textile patterns to be used in clothing, using hand weaving in a weaver’s loon and referring to the Gaucho’s poncho, largely used in Rio Grande do Sul State since the ancestry until today. The research focus at a qualitative approach and uses as data collecting instruments and document analysis: the field research and the observation, combined to a project methodology which gives support to the creation in design. Beginning from the Gaucho’s poncho, a traditional vesture of the Gaucho, we found out that it is possible to create patterns to be used in the contemporary clothing, keeping their original characteristics specially in what refers to the materials utilized in their making – fleece – and, at the same time propose alternatives by using different materials like industrialized textile yarns and threads.