Color Recognition of Students Observed During Braid Making

Abstract

This study aims to clarify the decision-making processes in color selection of people of various generations. As a preliminary study, a 13-year old, 80 junior high school students were subjected to a questionnaire survey for their thread color combination and impression of the resulting braids during a workshop at their classes. Among 28 words describing colors positively or negatively, those well describing the colors chosen by the students were applied without limitation. Association with the completed braids and degree of satisfaction for the color combination were also declared and classified into one of five levels. Within the scope of this questionnaire survey, it was found that the color combination for a braid by junior high school students tended to combine similar colors for a resonance effect that can be seen in the natural world. With this working hypothesis, further data acquisition is needed to draw a more general conclusion.