الزخارف الشعبية کمصدر ابداعي لهدايا ضيوف الرحمن بالمملکة العربية السعودية

Research Objectives: This research aims at employing folklore decorations in designing and creating gifts for the guests and visitors of Allah as well as linking the old and modern art industries and producing them in a distinctive way to be provided for guests of Allah, and developing the designing skills of the designers and applying them on the production of simple gifts to the guests of Allah with its distinctive Saudi features. This research used two scientific methods, including descriptive analytical and semi-experimental approaches.

Research Tools: Digital Camera - Scanner - Electronic Arbitration Form

Search findings:

The findings of the studies regarding utilizing decorations of the Saudi folklore have been similar in some of them and differed in others due to the different objectives and assumptions. The most important findings were:

1. Employing the Saudi folklore in designing and creating gifts for the guests of Allah.
2. The innovation can be achieved by providing a set of requirements and often requires no new technology to achieve as much as it requires new and unfamiliar ideas.
3. Technical solutions in how to organize the elements of designing popular decorative units which are flexible and fluent have been established.
4. The research and studies show that the southern region is characterized by great wealth
5. The Saudi folklore art is considered an effective and authentic influence in the field of crafts and handicrafts.

The most important research recommendations:

1. Promoting folklore in practical educational curricula.
2. The necessity to conduct further researches on the design of gifts to the guests of the Allah using local industry.
3. Holding courses for handicrafts, especially the crafts of popular heritage.
4. Using of modern techniques to expand in the field of heritage gifts such as computer design program.
5. The study of the finding shows that the achievement of the requirements of innovation is a major demand for the development of the folklore art.