This Huppah, by the late artist Kopel Gurwin is up for sale on ebay... So for anyone of you with a spare $4000...
Showing posts with label Huppah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Huppah. Show all posts
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Friday, October 10, 2008
No small love, just a small chuppah!
GoldieHoll of Flickr made this chuppah for an exhibition in Raanana, Israel; it is in 1/12 scale (everything 12 time smaller). The flowers were made from paper one by one ( a lot of time). The dress is made on a dummy that was once a keyring. In the huppah she embroided the words Kol Hatan vekol kala, kol sasson vekol simha.
My Yom Kippur was less than holy. Tuesday morning I awoke with a pulled muscle. I managed to work that day but Wednesday required a trip to the doctor and lots of sedating medication. Today, Friday, is the first time I have been dressed since (or on the computer).
I checked on Judaica Journal to find three rather scathing comments regarding a post I had place earlier this week. Apparently an artist did not like being posted without her permission (she also had thought I had not given a link to her website which I had) so I removed her posting with deep regret since she is quite talented and I wanted to share her work. One comment also was regarding my lifting from other individuals, I want to say once again that JJ is a work of love not a financial endeavor. If I had the time and the talent to write about every piece, I would, but I also am a wife, a mother and a busy professional. I do this for the love of the art. If you don't want to be posted let me know and I will remove your work ASAP. I do not mean to offend anyone.
So everyone have a blessed Shabbat and enjoy the work I can post!
My Yom Kippur was less than holy. Tuesday morning I awoke with a pulled muscle. I managed to work that day but Wednesday required a trip to the doctor and lots of sedating medication. Today, Friday, is the first time I have been dressed since (or on the computer).
I checked on Judaica Journal to find three rather scathing comments regarding a post I had place earlier this week. Apparently an artist did not like being posted without her permission (she also had thought I had not given a link to her website which I had) so I removed her posting with deep regret since she is quite talented and I wanted to share her work. One comment also was regarding my lifting from other individuals, I want to say once again that JJ is a work of love not a financial endeavor. If I had the time and the talent to write about every piece, I would, but I also am a wife, a mother and a busy professional. I do this for the love of the art. If you don't want to be posted let me know and I will remove your work ASAP. I do not mean to offend anyone.
So everyone have a blessed Shabbat and enjoy the work I can post!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Couture Canopies
Jody Soloshatz of Couture Canopies is a fine artist and former fashion designer who designed womenswear over the past ten years for a variety of companies including Victoria's Secret, Gap Body, and Banana Republic. After hand painting a uniquely designed chuppah for her own wedding, she was inspired to combine her fashion sensibility with her background in fine arts to create Couture Canopies.
An award winning textile artist, her high taste level, refined sense of style, and painterly aesthetic combine to create exquisitely beautiful chuppahs. You can see the equisite detail of her work in the examples below.
Jody holds a degree in Textile and Apparel Design from Cornell University (GO BIG RED) and has studied fashion design and fine art at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, and at the Polimoda in Florence, Italy.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Forever Huppah
Jewish weddings. Nothing better. If you want to have a good time, find a NJB or NJG, fall in love and get married.
What do you need? A chuppah of course. The chuppah, or canopy, which is made of cloth stretched between poles, symbolizes the new home of the couple and is often carried by the attendants to the position where the marriage ceremony will take place. In many weddings the chuppah is already in place. The groom's parents walk him to the chuppah, where they stand together awaiting the bride. While a cantor sings from the Song of Songs, the bride is accompanied to the chuppah by her parents.
Sure you can use the temple's chuppah, but wouldn't it be better to have your chuppah forever? If you choose to have Rachel Eisen Bressler of Forever Huppah make you chuppah you will have something that you will treasure for years to come.
As Rachel says regarding designing her huppa for her marriage to David (who happens to be one of my oldest friends from Hebrew School), "I made our huppah with the thought that although one day a daughter of ours might think my wedding dress was ugly too; she (or her brother) still might like to marry beneath the same canopy which covered her mother and father on their wedding day. I'll tell you the truth though—I had my dress preserved along with the huppah... just in case!"
Rachel's hand paints the chuppah's on china silk adding details specific for each couple. David did pretty well for himself, marrying a beautiful woman who can also create such beauty. Enjoy looking...
What do you need? A chuppah of course. The chuppah, or canopy, which is made of cloth stretched between poles, symbolizes the new home of the couple and is often carried by the attendants to the position where the marriage ceremony will take place. In many weddings the chuppah is already in place. The groom's parents walk him to the chuppah, where they stand together awaiting the bride. While a cantor sings from the Song of Songs, the bride is accompanied to the chuppah by her parents.
Sure you can use the temple's chuppah, but wouldn't it be better to have your chuppah forever? If you choose to have Rachel Eisen Bressler of Forever Huppah make you chuppah you will have something that you will treasure for years to come.
As Rachel says regarding designing her huppa for her marriage to David (who happens to be one of my oldest friends from Hebrew School), "I made our huppah with the thought that although one day a daughter of ours might think my wedding dress was ugly too; she (or her brother) still might like to marry beneath the same canopy which covered her mother and father on their wedding day. I'll tell you the truth though—I had my dress preserved along with the huppah... just in case!"
Rachel's hand paints the chuppah's on china silk adding details specific for each couple. David did pretty well for himself, marrying a beautiful woman who can also create such beauty. Enjoy looking...
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