"A cooperative project between a Bezalel Academy student and the Hebrew University’s Institute of Chemistry creates intricate lacework through technological means, blending art and science in a bid to reshape craft as we know it.
The project was the brainchild of Ganit Goldstein, a jewelry and fashion student at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. As part of her second year project, Goldstein had to recreate a historical outfit and later provide her own contemporary interpretation.
“I wanted my contemporary design to be a thematic opposite of the historical dress,” said Goldstein. “I decided to replace the Sisyphean manual lacework with 3D printing technology.”
While Goldstein provided the designs and ideas, the synthetic lace production process was done with the help of Professor Shlomo Magdassi’s laboratory at the Hebrew University’s Casali Institute for Applied Chemistry and the 3D Functional and Printing Center at the Hebrew University Nanocenter."