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dc.contributor.author Pathirana, H
dc.date.accessioned 2022-09-12T07:50:57Z
dc.date.available 2022-09-12T07:50:57Z
dc.date.issued 2014-12
dc.identifier.issn 2012-6301 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/19020
dc.description.abstract Adornment is a beautification and embellishment, and an addition to the pleasantness and attractiveness, a decoration that is added to relieve plainness. The human form has been subjected to adornment from the past to the present and towards the future in many different methods and techniques making it the foreground for jewellery. The jewellery industry today has developed so much internationally that the trends and fashion of body adornment are shared beyond the cultures and the traditions. Certain practices of adornment have found places internationally so that present practices of adornment have become timeless concepts merging with the trends of the world. The art of jewellery, in the tradition seem to interestingly combine with principles of design that showcases the skill of material handling, relationship made with human form, from the view point of the aesthetics. The inspiration that has been derived for such creations from various sources and the unique originality that has marked in the Sinhalese jewellery will be identified, based on the principles of art and design.In the method of study, the relationships jewellery has made with human body form, and the aesthetical patterns that have created along the traditions had made, visible connections with the cultural patterns will be brought into topical discussions. In the conclusion it has been found out that ancient concepts that were deeply rooted in the traditional practices consists of ultra modern techniques that can be renewed for the use of the present day practices that they are concepts of timelessness. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Architecture University of Moratuwa en_US
dc.subject Body Adornment, en_US
dc.subject Concepts
dc.subject Sinhalese Jewellery
dc.subject Tradition
dc.subject Culture
dc.title Identification of body adornment concepts in Sinhalese jewellery en_US
dc.type Article-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.year 2014 en_US
dc.identifier.journal Research Journal of the Faculty of Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.issue 01 en_US
dc.identifier.volume 06 en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos 156-166 en_US
dc.identifier.email hiranthipathirana@yahoo.com en_US


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