Exploring integration of traditional and digital textiles and experimenting its role for non verbal communication in the social space of users

Abstract

India has rich and extensive textile traditions across the country largely owing to its historical geographical and cultural uniqueness In recent times textiles have been found to be an interesting medium for embedding electronics to impart augmented functionalities beyond clothing or furnishing With a gradual decline in craft practices of India over the decades the plethora of crafting traditions provides immense opportunity to embed and explore possibilities of digitisation and to assess...