Name: Tooba Mahmood Course: Design Project Submitted to: Sir Maqsood

Brief history:
One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights. The work as we have it was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era. What is common throughout all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryar and his wife Scheherazade and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves. The stories proceed from this original tale; some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord. Some editions contain only a few hundred nights, while others include 1,001 or more. Some of the stories of The Nights, particularly "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", while almost certainly genuine Middle-Eastern folk tales, were not part of The Nights in Arabic versions, but were interpolated into the collection by Antoine Gallant and other European translators It is also notable that the innovative and rich poetry and poetic speeches, chants, songs, lamentations, hymns, beseeching, praising, pleading, riddles and annotations provided by Scheherazade or her story characters are unique to the Arabic version of the book. Some are as short as one line, while others go for tens of lines.

Story line behind Arabian Nights:

The main frame story concerns a Persian king and his new bride. He is shocked to discover that his brother's wife is unfaithful; discovering his own wife's infidelity has been even more flagrant, he has her executed: but in his bitterness and grief decides that all women are the same. The king, Shahryar, begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning, before she has a chance to dishonor him. Eventually the vizier, whose duty it is to provide them, cannot find any more virgins. Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter, offers herself as the next bride and her father reluctantly agrees. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a tale, but does not end it. The king is thus forced to postpone her execution in order to hear the conclusion. The next night, as soon as she finishes the tale, she begins (and only begins) a new one, and the king, eager to hear the conclusion, postpones her execution once again.

The different versions have different individually detailed endings (in some Scheherazade asks for a pardon, in some the king sees their children and decides not to execute his wife, in some other things happen that make the king distracted) but they all end with the king giving his wife a pardon and sparing her life. All extant substantial versions of both recessions share a small common core of tales, namely:

The Merchant and the Demon. The Fisherman and the Jinni. The Story of the Porter and the Three Ladies. The Hunchback cycle. The Story of the Three Apples, in framing the Story of Nor al-Din and Shams al-Din The Story of Nor al-Din Ali and Anis al-Jalis

As a conceptual theme:
At the exciting Arabian Nights Dinner Attraction, guests enter the magical world of Scheherazade, a young girl with a bigger-than-life dream of becoming a beautiful Princess. Two magical Genies take Scheherazade and her guests on a thrilling and romantic adventure filled with music, lights and daring acts where anything can happen, from a square dance on horseback to Gypsies leaping, flipping and dancing on moving horses backs! The large-scale theatrical production at Arabian Nights features riders and acrobats performing with more than 60 horses, including Walter Farleys Black Stallion. The nightly performances, featuring delicious menu options, give guests the most incredible experience among Central Floridas dinner shows. The entire Arabian Nights performance and dinner show is hosted inside the Palace of Horses, the worlds largest indoor equestrian arena for a permanent show, where 11 different breeds of horses are trained and cared for by the dedicated staff of this amazing dinner theater production.

Related to assignment:
Theme: Arabian nights with arabesque motifs Color palette:

Product (1): Arabian style rug Size: 25 by 45 Working with: through weaving on off loom. Material: wooden structure, thread 10*16, wool, velvet thread, jute string. Product (2): Pair of Cushions Size: 16 by 16 inches Working with: through printing Material: different fabrics, string, tassels, embossed printing and embroidery

Description:
I have chosen this theme because of its bright attractive colors which appeals me a lot. As nights relates to dark and deep colors which also enhances my color palette. As this theme Arabian night has a vast variety of colors but there is no such motif or designs that I can

inspire with therefore, I choose one more theme that is arabesque to move my work on a larger scale. After settling up with the themes, I intended with the product. After shuffling up with number of ideas related to my design project I preferred to work on Arabian style rug and a pair of cushions. The target audience for my products will be the people who set up their party or ceremonies according to this theme or if any grand celebration of higher class status, specially arranges a mid-night ceremony and invites sheikhs or famous people of Arab as their chief guests so for this my product would be the best one to match up their arrangement so that the guest feel homely.

Steps to be followed for rug are:

A wooden frame warp of 10 16 thread is set required motif is drawn on graph Graph is then placed beneath the frame. Working is started with selected colors and type of weave. In this way the procedure of making the rug goes on

Steps for cushions:

The selected color fabric is purchased. Fabric is cut into 16 by 16 inches. For embroidery we trace out the motif on the cloth. For printing the screen is placed on the marked surface. The fabric is ironed from the back side for embossing the printed area. Finally the finishing of cushion is done by placing the string on the joints.

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