Passion is a packaging design kit inspired by the Hmong’s textile aesthetic. Passion aims to inform and educate the Hmong’s textile known as Batik to the younger generation. Passion came from the love and affection of the Hmong’s culture, identity, and the desire of wanting to preserve one’s own culture through visual language. Textiles were a significant part of the Hmong identity and reflect who they were and the relationship to their environment. In the modern period, not many Hmong people in the United States know how to make their own textile using traditional techniques. Ancestral Hmong art practices used to create traditional textiles became lost. From the hardship during the Vietnam war, textile became a part of their identity through oral histories and visual language such as pictograph representation (story cloth). Batik was a tradition that was learned and passed from generation to generation from mothers to their daughters at a young age. Hmong often known to combine batik with unique applique and embroidery.
