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Smart and interactive textiles have resulted from exploration and adoption of new materials and technology of the Digital age and can be described as the next phase in the evolution of Textiles. As we learn to make textiles with new properties, it is important that we also define the narrative of smart textiles. To develop narratives for smart textiles we can learn from the traditional textile craft communities who, for generations, have successfully embedded their cultural narratives within their fabric, creating textiles that are functional as well as coded with meaning and purpose. This paper describes ways in which craftsman understood and explored materials; the need for us to be craftsman and explore materials that can create new narrative and myths; it also highlights the need to involve traditional artisans to be part of the smart textiles exploration and to learn from them to create transient textiles that can lead to new interactions and experiences.

This study investigates the determinants of the Indonesian textile and textile product (TPT) industry's technical efficiency. Employing the rich, balanced panel data of 3,365 firms over 2007-2013 with a non-parametric approach to the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Bootstrapping and Tobit regression, this study discovers that the production operations are inefficient, especially the companies upstream. The improvement of technical efficiency is driven by firm size, market concentration, foreign ownership, and exports. An intriguing finding is that the capital-labour ratio negatively impacts efficiency, implying higher capital for production will make the production even more inefficient. The machines in most TPT firms are old, so larger capital may not help. This study recommends the government design policies that support the machinery restructuration so that capital can support production efficiency.