Multipurpose bags from Nakhon Sri Thammarat cloth remnant made by fabric cutting techniques

Abstract

The study of Multipurpose bags brocade remnant from Nakhon Sri Thammarat made by fabric cutting techniques has two main objectives. First, to understand the designs and production processes and second, to understand customers/target market satisfaction toward the bags. Three design samples are revealed to five design specialists. In addition, fifty target market samples are asked to fill in a questionnaire, the results are in frequency, percentage and mean. The results found that the multipurpose bags brocade remnant from Nakorn Sri Thammarat made by fabric cutting techniques that using a fragment, sew them together to become a document bag and even a laptop hand carry bag. There are a highly potential of these new products to generate more income to the village and for Arts and Crafts center at Baan NernThummung to increase an employee rate by adding more value to the existing products. The questionnaire results found that the target market samples are highly satisfy with 4.65. The range from most satisfaction to least are as follow. The highest score with 4.98 interested in added value to the products. Second, the sample interested in recycle of remnant with 4.94, third, the sizes for the bags with 4.90, forth, usage ability with 4.84, Fifth, durability of the products with 4.76, sixth, shape stability with 4.74, seventh, neat cutting line with 4.66, eighth, the cleanliness both outside and inside the bags with 4.62, ninth, neat sewing line between fragments, neat seaming and multipurpose pockets inside the bags with 4.58, tenth, shape designs with 4.52, Eleventh, easy to use open-close ropes and the least satisfaction is the color of the remnant is in harmony with 4.20.