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As A Seal UponYour Heart
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Ketubah artist Nurita presents: illustrated designer ketubahs made to order
Traditional, alternative, personalized designs, paper cutouts and ancient Jewish motifs alongside with modern artistic influences.
bat hen,
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Israel
(prbd.net)
20/07/2011
Ketubah artist Nurita presents: illustrated designer ketubahs made to order
Traditional, alternative, personalized designs, paper cutouts and ancient Jewish motifs alongside with modern artistic influences.
At the outset of the wedding season Judaica and ketubahs artist Nurita presents unique designer handmade ketubahs.
For over twenty–five years Nurita has been creating ketubahs in which she incorporates traditional Jewish motifs inspired by ancient manuscripts and combines them with both ethnic motifs and modern themes of contemporary art.
Nurita employs several techniques in creating her ketubahs: painting with top quality tempera, gouache and aquarelle colors, use of black ink and stylus for calligraphy learned from a Jerusalem scribe painstakingly drawing each letter and creating a personal writing style. Another technique she employs is traditional paper cutout ketubahs. These are made of profusely intricate paper cutouts creating delicate lacelike designs.
Nurita's first customers were a number of couples of family friends. The ketubahs she made for them were inspired by the impressive ketubah collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, a city where she then lived. Throughout the years she has created many ketubahs for couples both in Israel and abroad where the tradition of ordering artistically illustrated ketubahs is quite popular.
In her new just recently opened studio in Even Yehuda in the Sharon Valley Nurita presents a great selection of readymade ketubahs alongside with made to order ones. The creative process of a personalized ketubah takes several weeks during which the couple usually becomes an integral part of the joint creation. At the end of this process a personal ketubah combining various elements such as traditional wording, Aramaic text, alternative contemporary texts or texts composed by the couple is agreed upon.
According to Nurita the last few years have seen a rise in the demand for artistic ketubahs among young couples and couples renewing their marriage vows after being married for many years. She says:" I feel fortunate and privileged to be part of people's lives at so meaningful an occasion as a wedding. I am happy that here, in Israel more and more couples also choose to carry on with this ancient, over five thousand year old tradition. The ketubahs which I create are a whole world of contents, form and color. It is of the outmost importance to me that each couple should get an original personal work. I consider my work to be almost sacred and I am happy and proud to be a part of it whether a couple orders a uniquely designed ketubah or requests reconstructing one that has been in their family for generations."
Origins of style and inspiration:
Nurita combines in her work knowledge acquired through her formal studies of art, calligraphy and influences she gained through her travels around the world. The years in which she lived in Singapore and travelled through Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Morocco have greatly enriched her world of images and colors so apparent in her work. Besides Arabesques, vegetation and geometric shapes she incorporates in her ketubah illustrations obvious Jewish motifs such as pomegranates, grape vines, Stars of David, gazelles and various motifs customary for Parocheth embroidery designs and Torah scrolls ornamentation.
Since Nurita has been doing folkloristic and ethnic embroidery for years and designing silver jewelry which combines ornaments and talismans these motifs have been carried over into her ketubah designs.
In her new studio in Even Yehuda you can view her many creations including jewelry combining silver and semi- precious stones and talismans, paintings in water colors, embroidered objects various Judaica works and of course ketubahs.
Prices of ketubahs range from 1000 to 4000 Shekel.
Details
Nurita Armoni 972-54-4262209
www.nurita.com
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