Quilled Ketubah with Sculptured Camellia
Here's a ketubah I quilled for a couple whose wedding took place at the Chicago Botanic
Garden earlier this summer. Calligrapher Tara Jones
of Dallas, Texas had designed the couple's invitation and while looking for ideas for their ketubah, the bride
came across my site and recognized Tara's unique lettering style on
an earlier certificate she and I had worked on together - small world! The
bride then asked if Tara and I would collaborate on their ketubah... yes, we would love to... these pictures show the result.
The 22 x 30 inch marriage contract features the bride and groom's initials in a quilled olive leaf wreath. I based the seafoam green arrangement on the design Tara had created for the top of their letterpress invitation. The on-edge monogram was done in charcoal, double-thickness quilling paper. I referred to angular letter shapes within Tara's text (not pictured) as my guide.
For the area between the text and signature lines, the bride asked me to take inspiration from a botanical print of a camellia that had been custom-printed as the postage stamp for their invitations.
The 22 x 30 inch marriage contract features the bride and groom's initials in a quilled olive leaf wreath. I based the seafoam green arrangement on the design Tara had created for the top of their letterpress invitation. The on-edge monogram was done in charcoal, double-thickness quilling paper. I referred to angular letter shapes within Tara's text (not pictured) as my guide.
For the area between the text and signature lines, the bride asked me to take inspiration from a botanical print of a camellia that had been custom-printed as the postage stamp for their invitations.
I quilled a stylized leafy vine and used pearlized and silver-edged paper to create the sculptured camellia.
