Lace Past

Lace as a word defined.
It is an open work fabric.
It is patterned with open holes in the work.
It can be made by machine or by hand
The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric.
More often, the open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric.

Lace-making is an ancient craft.
True lace was not made until the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
A true lace is created when a thread is looped, twisted or braided to other threads independently from a backing fabric.

Linen, silk, gold, or silver threads were used in the past.
Modern lace is often made with cotton thread.
Manufactured lace may be made of synthetic fibers.
A few modern artists make lace with a fine copper or silver wire instead of thread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace

Thanks from Bill.

I am still working toward a fuller understanding of the nature of sustainability expressed in this work.

Observation:

- the blog says
The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric.
More often, the open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric.

I see this having potential - that "creation" can occur both through assembling discrete elements to make a new whole, or by removing from a whole object some of its components or its material extents thereby making a new whole.

AN EXAMPLE?:

This back and forth is used dynamically by those plastic "balls" made from rigid struts connected to one another at their ends, in pairs or triplets etc. You can pick it up and it is a holey faceted ball. You push or pull on it in a certain way and it transforms into a multi-pointed star. Kind of a positive-negative exercise.

I wonder what you ywo can do with that concept?


Like a Hoberman sphere?