A RESEARCH AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOR HOME DECORATION BY TEXTILE OF DONG JEN SUB-DISTRICT GROUP, PHAYAO PROVINCE
Abstract
The development of community products in Dong Jen Sub District, Phu Kamyao District, Phayao
Province reflects local wisdom and responds to customer needs in today’s era, giving rise to building product
image to be widely known and achieve customer recognition. By doing this, community businesses will be
stimulated and tourism will be promoted at a community level. Furthermore, the spread of Covid-19 has
changed the world of work from working in a workplace to work from home, and people spend more time living
at home. Therefore, building work atmosphere at home in response to the Work From Home policy is a
guideline to develop home decorating items to meet consumer needs. The objectives of this research were 1) to
study community current status and a guideline to develop handicraft products from textiles of Dong Jen subdistrict community, 2) to study community identity, 3) to study consumer needs towards product development,
4) to make a conclusion of a guideline for product development and present a product prototype, 5) to assess
consumer satisfaction towards products. Steps to conduct the study included the following: Step 1 – seeking a
guideline for product development. The researcher collected data from interviewing the group of community
leaders, studied consumer needs and identity of Dong Jen community, leading to the steps of criticism,
conclusion of a developing guideline, and presentation of a product prototype. Step 2 – assessing consumer
satisfaction from 30 users. The findings from the study revealed that 1) currently people in Dong Jen community
are the elderly who have basic handicraft skills in embroidery, 2) most of people in the community make a
living from agriculture, 3) consumers need products made from natural materials in blue and gray colors with
minimal and geometric designs, 4) a product development guideline is making backrest pillows from natural
materials, i.e. using hand woven cotton, hemp embroidery threads, indigo dyeing process, hand stitch
embroidery technique, a design concept is derived from designs of wickerwork and community way of life, rice
field, rice grain, and stream in conjunction with patchwork technique, 5) satisfaction assessment results found
that consumer satisfaction towards utility was at a good level, aesthetics was at a very good level, materials was
at a good level. The suggestion from this study can be applied to the development of different products made of
other types of textiles, and the development of designs, production techniques and materials to be more
diversified