Hybrid Craft

A making practice that combines traditional hand-craft techniques (embroidery, weaving, quilting, ceramics, woodworking) with digital fabrication tools such as computerised embroidery machines, laser cutters, or 3D printers. In accessibility and HCI research, hybrid craft is often used to produce culturally situated, expressive, or personally meaningful tactile and assistive artefacts that neither hand-craft nor digital fabrication alone can deliver, and to support participation by makers who are not specialist engineers.