THE CREATION OF JEWELRY FROM CHANTHABOON’S REED MAT CHANTHABURI PROVINCE

Abstract

This research aimed to study creating, designing data for designing and jewelry prototype production from the Chanthaboon reed mat, Chanthaburi. This work was carried out under an investigation integration study: the study of the product creation concept and jewelry fashion trends in 2020 and the study of needs and opinions of a sample group chosen by convenience sampling among 100 tourists. The checklist questionnaire, developed by Jaisuda, Srisukho, and Sangchan (2018) and improved by a group of experts, was used to collect the data in a tourist attraction in Chanthaburi Province. Their responses were analyzed through basic statistics, such as percentage and their jewelry sketch design selection. The informant group was three experts who evaluated the results through a 5-level rating scale evaluation that examined the design quality. This evaluation was used to collect the data by the prototype sketch consideration, and the average was analyzed through this descriptive statistic. The research results found that jewelry design directions used for jewelry creation from reed mats are: 1) Surface Pro, 2) LinkedIn, and 3) Green Crush. The questionnaire results indicated that the average tourist is a woman (68%) who is 26-35 years old. She loves to wear jewelry to work (44 %). Their most interesting jewelry type was earrings 32%, rings 24%, and necklaces 21%, and the results of jewelry sketches selection from five sets showed that the fourth set of jewelry sketches conveyed the beauty of textures from reed mats. The preferred design highlighted the relationship between the geometrics.