Treatise of Digital Reconstruction and Restauration of Lace Porcelain

Lace porcelain is a fragile type of ceramics that is used to be in fashion in 19th century Dresden artworks. It is known to break easily while manual repair is nearly impossible. Instead, we considered digital scanning, reconstruction, and 3D printing of the damaged areas towards new digital restauration methodologies. One reference case was used throughout testing the enabling technologies, and the combination of micro CT and polyjet 3D printing proved to be most useful. However, defining a proper workflow are specifically digital modeling of porcelain lace requires complex modelling strategies, especially to make it fit for 3D printing.