Design inspiration from folk costume symbol of Shengpu watery region for modern home textile

Having made an investigation of women′s clothing in the watery region of Shengpu,a rural area in Suzhou,based on the principle of semiotics,it is concluded that technical symbolic elements are widely used for the collage in women′s costume of Shengpu watery region,pattern symbolic element is a combination use of homophonic symbol and image symbol,color symbolic element takes blue as the dominant hue,spotted with red and green in smaller areas.On this basis,this essay studies the way of using symbolic elements of Shengpu watery region folk costume in modern design.It also brings forward the designing methods and ideas,such as strengthening contrast and weakening contrast,seeking for harmony in freedom,starting from simple to complex and so on,hoping to provide more options to modern home textile products.