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Since traditional crafts place its focus upon handcrafts, how to both popularize and deepen its beauty, and integrate it into people’s daily lives have become an issue worth thinking about. Young people nowadays consider healing through daily lives via handcrafts trendy but they have not truly translated the elements of traditional crafts into the reality whereas traditional crafts, especially the bag industry, choose the elements of fast fashion as the primary media to meet the urgent need of promotion, localization, and transformation but they have ignored the feelings and emotions involved while doing crafts by hand. In light of this, this study has been striving to have the two ends meet each other to further create a combination of tradition and fast fashion.
This study focuses on the practice of bag R&D and design. First, regarding the selection of media, the main concerns are the analysis of textures and characteristics of materials, the percentage of primary and secondary materials used, and the visual aesthetics of the materials themselves. Second, the handcrafting techniques shall highlight both the handcrafts and originality of traditional crafts. Third, as far as the R&D and styles are concerned, this study adopted the `mash-up mixed media design' in accordance with the background built up in the past within the design industry to present the uniqueness of creation via natural dyes, leather, knits, felted wools, etc.
The main purpose of this study is to develop and present a new-generation form of expression, i.e. “Layering Techniques” with innovative ideas, by incorporating the easy access to the mixed media materials of fast fashion, reducing the complexity of the overall production process, cutting down the handcrafting cost, such as manual labor and working hours on the one hand, and integrating original ideas with designs, combining different materials, and equipping the aesthetics of life with a context of daily-life convenience on the other hand.
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