This paper presents how a contemporary lace practice explored the medium 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 hydrangea red sensation in a digital age.The author sought to test out if animation could capture and disseminate an ephemeral silver lining herbs kidney support 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 practice and introduced novel methods to disseminate future material research.