Braiding As Research Method: Building Relational Understanding for Fashion

This article introduces “braiding” as a process of enquiry for fashion concerned with deepening understanding through writing, dialogue, and participation with others. It sets out a step-wise process for bringing together people’s experiences about a theme and generating insight from this joint place, a point of relation. The article explores the potential of braiding to diversify knowledge production in fashion research and to bring forward understanding that emerges from interdependence. Examples of braiding-as-enquiry are interwoven through the piece.