Reimagining lace in a digital space

Reimagining lace in a digital space

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This paper presents how a contemporary lace practice explored the medium 100w products of animation as a digital tool for craft research.Research is practice based and theoretically framed around notions of smooth and striated space as a means to articulate how a designer engages in textile thinking to reimagine new expressions for (p)lace in a digital age.The author sought to test out if animation could capture and disseminate an ephemeral lace process.This led to a curious convergence between two disciplines.What was initially to be a tool for efficiency and speed unexpectedly turned out to be a method for abstracting an allusive lace making process.

Learning about the idiosyncrasies of another discipline opened new aesthetic opportunities for a contemporary lace elbeco adu ripstop pants practice and introduced novel methods to disseminate future material research.