What people mean by "technical" is whether a person has a background and education in some field related to what they are doing now. No doubt that conversation

What people mean by "technical" is whether a person has a background and education in some field related to what they are doing now. No doubt that conversations and sewing require specific skills and techniques. Certainly they are "technical" on some level, it just isn't what is meant. "Technical" in the context it is used means what level of specifics you can communicate on. Which is why it can be total nightmare to have to work with "non-technical" people, as there often is a relatively easy low level explanation, but that is useless to the other person, so communication starts to break down.