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- Title
Weaving a knowledge tapestry of traditional crafts for modern fashion designers: an Indian experience.
- Authors
Kumar, Sanjeev; Dutta, Nandini
- Abstract
Design innovations in India's fashion products result from a fusion of modern technologies and traditional craft skills. This paper highlights the role of the National Resource Centre and the network of resource centres of the National Institute of Fashion Technology in collecting and preserving heritage resources using computer technology. Plans for a National Design Repository and for Shilpakala Jnana Kosha, a digital repository for the tacit craft knowledge of artisans, share the objectives of preserving endangered traditional skills, supporting a process of revival and optimising the use of traditional crafts in contemporary fashion design.
- Subjects
NEW Delhi (India); INDIA; FASHION innovations; FASHION designers; COMPUTER engineering; NATIONAL Institute of Fashion Technology (New Delhi, India)
- Publication
Art Libraries Journal, 2011, Vol 36, Issue 2, p17
- ISSN
0307-4722
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0307472200016874