Browsing by Subject "minuus"
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(2001)The objective of the study was to understand individuality in Muslim women's dress. The research problems were, how individuality forms and appears in their dress. To answer these questions interviews were made with nine Muslim women who live in Finland. The interviews were analysed with the phenomenologically oriented content analysis method. The research report proceeds in a dialogue between theory and the analysis. In this study individuality in dress was studied as a process. Factors affecting to this process were considered: the individual, the set of identities, personality, self, religion, culture and social relationships. An essential part of the process was searching for a positive experience of self. The experience meant intuitive self-identification and satisfaction with the mirror reflection for the women. Individuality was the result of searching for the positive experience of self-identification, because for each woman different kinds of dress gave a feeling of suitability for the self. For example, for some Muslim women head covering is a way to express the self. They experience this as the right way for the good Muslim woman. For others head covering can mean the loss of positive self experience. Individuality in dress appeared in various ways. Some women cover their whole body including their head in public. Some women do not cover their head and some dress even in tight and revealing clothes. There are also Muslim women who cover their faces, they are not included in this study. Individuality appears also within groups that dress similarly. Individuality appeared with different kind of clothes, hairstyles, make-up, choices, details and colour. However, individuality is not only the noticeable differences in dress, but how each Muslim woman belongs to this reality and expresses herself within dress. This means that in this study individuality in dress is seen in a way that many Finns would not consider as individuality.
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(2020)Purpose of this research has been to find out as widely as possible all those factors which are attached to concept “emotional textile” and how these make difference from ordinary textiles in use. In the background of this research was generation theory of J.-P. Roos and by which tried to find out how different generations diverged between each other and how these generations named significant textiles to theirselves and from what kind of factors these representation processes were made from and what kind of meaning these textiles have to the identity of individual people during the lifetime. This research carried out at the summer 2018 by web query on the pages Onni elää käsityössä of Taito magazine and on the facebook pages of PRO Kädentaitajat ry. I get 257 answers to my query. The query mainly consisted of open questions. The analysis of this research was based on the qualitative analysis, grounded method, phenomenology and personal psychology analysis. According to the analysis, emotional textiles were segmented to following categories: security textiles, memory textiles, sense textiles, place textiles, self textiles, dream textiles and anti textiles. Divergence between different kind of emotional textiles was based on the personal psychological analyse how these textiles were meaningful to individual persons. According to that research it can be said that different textiles are meaningful to people but for different reasons based on the life experience of each individual person. This meaning can change during the lifetime and life experience. The generation theory of J,-P. Roos support the idea of meanings of textiles because each generation has its own “generation story” which affect to the view of life of each generation. Textiles can become as secure in situations where the identity of individual is threated or under re-evaluation. Individual person attach different meanigs to emotional textiles which are not included to ordinary textiles
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