Tech and Crafts: Technology, Crafts and Innovation for Future Fashion

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.