This thesis aims to explore the history of fresh flower decoration in the royal funeral rites of Kings and aristocrats in Rattanakosin Era as well as analyze pattern and development of fresh flower decoration in Royal Palace. This is a qualitative study conducted by means of researching and collecting historical evidences of artistic works documents chronicles and photographs stored at the National Archives. Researchers interviewed relevant people and specialists and summarized the results by inquiring seven specialists in flower decoration using Snowball Sampling technique to choose from then analyzed the data using Analytical Description procedure. The result shows that the traditions of flower decoration in royal palace have been passed by the hands of Mr. Tani a renowned artisan in Ayutthaya Era down to children and grandchildren in Rattanakosin Era. From lords to servants the tradition prevails and prospers during the reign of King Rama V (1868 – 1910). It was not commonly recorded in documents but instead conserved through the system of nobility rank passing down from generations. Currently civil service department and ceremony department are in charge of the fresh flower decoration duty. The main two sources where fresh flowers are supplied are from royal garden and external sources such as major cities. Style of conventional fresh flower decoration took after those of traditional which were highly regarded. The architectural pattern of thrones top of crown and castles are adopted into the decoration for instance the throne of Indra royal picture frames or catafalque. Also as the influence of Chinese and European spread through Siam the culture of flower decoration merged evolved and contributed to current beauty of flower decoration in Royal Palace namely interlacing of different color in garlands improvement of exquisite and big mobile decoration adaptation of fabric paper and wax into artificial flowers This is a beauty model in the royal court that is inherited to the present.

The purposes of this research were to investigate the quality of video-assisted teaching in Flower Business on the topic of basic flower arrangement including video content creation to explore the learning achievement of the learners from video-assisted teaching and to survey the learners’ satisfaction on the video-assisted teaching. Data tools were 1) video-assisted teaching in Flower Business on the topic of basic flower arrangement 2) a learning achievement test 3) learners’ satisfaction questionnaires on video-assisted teaching. The research samples were 27 students of Home Economics Business Administration Department from the Faculty of Home Economics Technology who studied Flower Business in semester 1 / 2014 The results were found as follows: 1) The arithmetic mean of the content quality of video-assisted teaching in Flower Business was at the highest level (x ̅ = 4.53) The arithmetic mean of the quality of video-assisted teaching was at the high level (x ̅ = 4.13) 2) From the learning achievement test it was found that the mean pre-test score was(x ̅=10.5 S.D. =1.397) and the mean posttest score was (x ̅ = 15.8 S.D. = 1.841) 3) The t-test of learning achievement between the pre-test and posttest wast = -14.822 The significance level was .05 The learners’ satisfaction on video-assisted teaching in Flower Business was at the highest level with the mean of (x ̅ = 4.53)In conclusion video-assisted teaching in Flower Business is effective on the achievement of the learners and the learners satisfied video-assisted teaching in Flower Business at the highest level.

The objectives of the research are to study and compare the desirable characteristics of Home Economics graduates in the field of fresh flora decoration to study the problem and suggestion according to the requirement of the three stars and four stars hotel located in Bangkok and registered with the Thai Hotel Association by using the questionnaires with 34 samples using the percentage mean standard deviation and t – test as the analysis tools. According to the research it was found that the desirable characteristics of Home Economics graduates in the field of fresh flora decoration is virtue morality knowledge mathematical and scientific knowledge standard vocational knowledge communication skills technological skill that all are rated at high level.The requirements of the three stars and four stars hotel are not statistically different ( p – value more than 0.05) and the additional suggestion related to the standard knowledge that suit for the economic social and technological situation that has been changed is creativity and adaptation for new production and related to the vocational knowledge is to use modern styles for fresh flora decoration.

The purposes of this research were to study and explore the relationship between the attitudes toward the preservation of banana-leaf crafts flower works and decoration of fresh flowers of the Faculty of Home Economics Technology students Rajamangala University of Technology and individuals as well as internal and external factors. Research samples were 270 undergraduate students of the Faculty of Home Economics Technology from Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon Rajamangala University of Technology Krung Thep and Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi. The samples were selected by using stratified sampling. The research methods were questionnaires and testing forms. Data analysis was performed by descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The results of the study revealed that the attitudes toward the preservation of banana-leaf crafts flower works and decoration of fresh flowers of the Faculty of Home Economics Technology students Rajamangala Univers