Tech and Crafts: Technology, Crafts Innovation for Future Fashion

This book examines the relationship between technology and craftsmanship in fashion, addressing design processes, material culture, heritage, and innovation. It explores digital tools, historical techniques, and knowledge transmission, highlighting their role in shaping fashion practices and methodologies across time This book brings together a wide range of perspectives to explore the enduring dialogue between technology and craftsmanship in fashion. Moving across time, disciplines, and practices, it reflects on how innovation and tradition have continuously shaped the ways garments are conceived, produced, and understood. Rather than positioning technology as a replacement for craft, the contributions reveal a more nuanced relationship—one rooted in exchange, reinterpretation, and continuity. From emerging digital tools to historical techniques and material cultures, the chapters offer multiple perspectives on how knowledge is created, transmitted, and transformed. By framing fashion as a space where past and future converge, this volume invites readers to reconsider the processes, values, and narratives that define the field.