EL AL | Atmosphere

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Photos: Roy Mizrachi

Tamar Branitzky | Textile artist and designer Tamar Branitzky’s work deals with the connection between nature, wilderness, and urban life. She takes pictures of landscapes and reprocesses them, using digital and screen printing, paper sewing, and a variety of other techniques. Her creations offer new poetic re-creations of the Israeli landscape, taking the beholder on an imaginary journey through time, space, narratives, and perspectives, via layers of paper, fabric, reality and imagination. @tamar_branitzky_designs

Photos: Tamuz Nachman

Knots | Neta Tesler

Textile designer Neta Tesler’s love for the nautical world is an integral part of her furniture and accessories brand, which she founded ten years ago. The designs of her benches, stools, and pillows are all made using the weaving technique she developed as part of her end-of-studies project which earned her international recognition. Tesler recently launched a new textile collection based on a new technology she developed that imitates the look and texture of ancient mosaic patterns. The technique involves a special sewing technique that stitches fabric to a layer of sponge, thus creating a 3D-looking padding that’s not only technically impressive, but also soft, comfortable and aesthetically pleasing. @knots_studio

Piece of mine | Tali Zelnik

Last year, textile designer Tali Zelnik founded a lamp brand that combines her passion for textile design with that of Israeli ceramics. Zelnik creates her lamps using vintage Israeli vases made between the 1950s-80s, to which she combines handmade textile shades she makes in her Tel Aviv studio. The marriage between vintage vase and contemporary shade results in unique light fixtures that are not only ecofriendly, but also beautiful to behold. The shades are made with linen, raffia, and “plissé” fabric. @tali_zelnik

Photo: courtesy of the designer

38 ATMOSPHERE DECEMBER 2024