Handicraft and Design collaboration: approaches and dynamics

Thematic analysis and thematic co-occurrence was used to examine the existing literature. Open coding was done for identified papers to find out what is the reason behind traditional handicrafts and design integration and how it is happening. From the writers' qualitative statements, general information was extracted from each study. Excerpts from each selected article were combined into larger codes without attribution. Then the gathered material was again reformed into basic codes, allowing the content to lead the construction of the codes rather than any preconceived notions. These basic codes were further clubbed together to form larger themes. These themes were meant to identify broader meaning from the data.