Limor Yosipovich
Contemporary textile artist, working from her studio.
Her life and her work move forward,
thread by thread.
Before Limor discovered the loom, she had already spent years making things beside her father, Abraham.
His workshop was downstairs, full of tools, wood and metal. She worked beside him there and out in the yard, learning simply by watching and doing – how to understand a material, stay with a problem and carry an idea through.
Years later came the loom, and another teacher. Both are still present in the work she makes today.
Over the years, pattern-making, garment construction, dyeing and weaving gradually found their way into the same work.
Somewhere along the way, they became something distinctly her own.
There is no fixed recipe.
A work may begin with thread, wood, wire, colour – or simply with curiosity.
Things are tried, changed, taken apart and started again. Limor does not hide how a piece was made. The process remains there to be seen.
In 2009, Limor met Eddie Schwartz, who would later call her “my only student.”
For years, he taught her classical Gobelin weaving from the ground up.
He also gave her a loom from the Mambush tapestry workshop at Ein Hod, the artists’ village founded by Marcel Janco, one of the founders of Dada.
A practice in the world
Stations of a practice
- 2010 Professional training in dyeing wool threads and weaving on the Gobelin loom, Rugs and tapestry
- 2009 Professional training in classical weaving on the wooden loom, Teaching at her own workshop
- 2005 Lecturer, HUC - Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, Lectures for teachers and supervisors on theoretical and social subjects
- 2004 Development and production of a signature doll line
- 2003 Founded the workshop "Litzor im Limor", Creating with Limor
- 2003 Content writing for La’Isha magazine, And academic writing on editing and hosting
- 2002 BA studies, History of Art, Tel Aviv University
- 2001 Window display designer, Castro chain
- 2000-2002 Courses in window display design, Jerusalem Studies, Avshalom Institute
- 1998 Courses in architecture, painting and sculpture
- 1995 Studies in teaching creativity, Early childhood, youth and senior guidance
- 1986 Shenkar College of Textile Technology & Fashion, Graduate of WIZO France High School, Tel Aviv
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