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The fabric of life Textile design is at the heart of home décor. Fabrics and textiles are able to light up, beautify and stylize any living space in the most magical way, through an infinity of textures and designs. Here are five Israeli designers leading the way on the textile front / By Adi Fogel Hollander

Photos: courtesy of the designer

Yarnatak | Maria Feigin and Geaya Blory Studio Yarnatak is a colorful rug brand that creates handmade pieces that can be used as floor rugs as well as pieces to hang on the wall as decorative artwork. The brand’s new “Mending the Fragments” collection features designs of cracked and joined floor tiles as well as maps of Israel and the Middle East that have been torn apart and reassembled. The project was borne out of the collective sense of fracture that is so palpable in Israel now, and the desire to bridge the fractures and create a new reality. The inspiration for the designs comes from the Japanese concepts of wabi sabi and kintsugi art, according to which there is grace in asymmetry, fragments, and incompleteness, and the visual inspiration originates in Israeli concrete tile patterns that are characteristic of Israeli architecture. @yarnatak

Photos: Denis Fomin

Tamara Efrat | The works of multidisciplinary artist and designer Tamara Efrat deal with the

interconnection between traditional textile craftsmanship and advanced digital technologies. For her most recent project, “Ssp”, meaning “to collect” or “to fold” in Ancient Egyptian, she collaborated with one of the last remaining plissé textile factories in Israel and studied the history of the plissé technique. Through her research, she discovered that the technique originated in Ancient Egypt, where it was used as a status symbol. Inspired by ancient hieroglyphs, Efrat created a series of patterns that each tell a different story from ancient times. All were digitally printed onto natural fabrics and hand folded using a special embroidery technique. The resulting creation is an intricate wall piece that opens a dialogue between tradition and modernity, craftsmanship and technology, the past and the present. @tamaraefrat

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