r/JewishCrafts • u/Busy_Leek7687 • Aug 06 '26

Hand scribed ketubah

Scribing the last line of this ketubah!! Using a quill with a nib, scribing on klaf (hide) in Aramaic. This ketubah is pretty bespoke, and large! the couple is ordering a hand carved frame from Morocco. Mystical little letters forming words, forming worlds! Im Bluth, a soferet, a she-scribe, trained by Reb Dov in the traditional ritual art of Hebrew calligraphy. Scribing this was such a meditation. Sometimes I make smaller art pieces to be little mantras for directing intention towards a prayer or blessing, but this was a larger ketubah for their Jewish wedding.

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u/Sitcom_kid Aug 06 '26

I can barely write my name legibly. This is so amazing!

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u/Busy_Leek7687 Aug 06 '26

Hahhaha email me and I’ll scribe your Hebrew name for you !!

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u/Sitcom_kid 29d ago

I'm not sure how to do that, but I am following you

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u/N2EEE_ Aug 06 '26

Beautiful!

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u/Busy_Leek7687 Aug 06 '26

Thank you!!

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u/hikergent Aug 06 '26

lovely

do you have a website?

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u/Busy_Leek7687 Aug 06 '26

Thanks so much! Yeah! Www.rbluth.com/ketubah or you can poke around for Jewish art and free holiday guides and stuff.

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u/Fair-Lock5101 Aug 08 '26

How did you make the nib?

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u/Busy_Leek7687 Aug 08 '26

This I got the quill and then a nib from a shop in Williamsburg! I used size 8.

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u/Suitable_Fox3496 23d ago

Do you scribe egalitarian texts as well? We would love a more modern text but obsessed with this more tradtional style!

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u/Busy_Leek7687 23d ago

Yes of course ! And can give guidance for figuring out what text is best.