Tzipporah Johnston
Butterflies Revisted
Over the next month, I'm going to be writing a bit about the pieces I currently have on show at the Nature/Nurture exhibition at the...
Tzipporah Johnston
Edinburgh-based embroiderer and visual artist
Tzipporah Johnston
- Jan 10, 2021
- 3 min
Designing the Mantle
Happy New Year! I thought it was about time I shared an update on how the Fruit of Her Hands project is coming along. After a couple of...
Tzipporah Johnston
- Nov 5, 2020
- 4 min
A Bit More About the Origins of Neuk Collective
As many of you know already, earlier this year I received a small grant from Creative Scotland’s Create:Inclusion funding stream to do a...
Tzipporah Johnston
- Oct 22, 2020
- 5 min
The ties that bind (the Torah scroll)
Along with the Torah mantle, I will be making a binder. The Torah binder is a kind of band or belt that goes around the middle of the...
Tzipporah Johnston
- Sep 23, 2020
- 4 min
Dressing the Torah
It’s a halachic requirement to keep the Torah scroll respectfully covered when not in use, but each Jewish ethnic group has its own...
Tzipporah Johnston
- Sep 21, 2020
- 6 min
Can you make a Torah mantle using scrap fabric?
This post is a bit of a niche one, so if you’re not into halacha (Jewish law), you might want to skip it. As I explained in my first...
Tzipporah Johnston
- Sep 15, 2020
- 3 min
Notes on the Title, and a Bibliography
A note about the project title: ‘The Fruit of Her Hands’ comes from Proverbs 31, which describes the woman of valour (Hebrew: eishet...
Tzipporah Johnston
- Sep 10, 2020
- 5 min
The Fruit of Her Hands - About the Project
I was just beginning a career as a textile artist when Covid-19 hit. I’ve sewn, felted, knitted and embroidered since I was in college,...