Emotional qualities of domestic textile motifs

Abstract

Textile motifs provide context and communicate stories that with their diverse compositions of geometric or abstract nature accommodate emotional aspects in the user's experience in interior spaces. The present article aims to analyze the visual, emotional, and semantic qualities of a series of textile motifs under an experimental mixed method based on emotional design since it is suggested that there is a preference for certain types of shapes that are associated with specific emotional experiences in the human being and their perception in the interior space. The study was carried out with a group of foreign participants living in Saudi Arabia to analyze the emotions of a set of fourteen textile motifs with background and origin from a particular culture, allowing to identify a possible connection between the selection of the motifs and the cultural background or place of origin of the participants, who assigned emotional and semantic values from their culture of origin. The results obtained address the emotional connotations, values and responses according to the cultural background of the subjects, associating characteristics of the motifs to the geographical regions.