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Summertime and its lazy afternoons offer the perfect opportunity for design aficionados to treat themselves to a design workshop or two. Here are 5 fantastic creative workshops you need to know about / By Adi Fogel Hollander

Textile | Tamar Branitzky Tamar Branitzky is an artist and textile designer who translates sights, memories, and emotions into textile art that is full of texture and feeling. Her work, inspired by nature, combines drawing, photography, and sewing. It has figured in many exhibitions and hangs on the walls of many private homes. In her Tel Aviv studio located in the vibrant Gan HaHashmal neighborhood, Branitzky leads creative workshops where participants make paper and textile collages using numerous techniques such as print, cutting, pasting, sewing, and drawing. Duration: 2 hours Price: NIS 300 per participant

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Terrazzo | Maor Aharon Maor Aharon is an artist and product designer who combines technology with traditional techniques to create useful objects out of colorful plastic materials. In his studio in southern Tel Aviv, he conducts terrazzo workshops where he invites participants to use a special pigment-rich acrylic and water-based polymer plaster to create handmade colorful terrazzo. Each participant makes the object of their choice in molds created by Aharon himself, including ones of a clock, a tray, or candlesticks. Duration: 4 hours Price: NIS 350 per participant maoraharon_studio workshops.maoraharon.com

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