Tamar Bar-Nes, Textile Designer

My name is Tamar Bar-Nes, mother to Nitzan and wife to Tomer.

I was born in 1978 in Jerusalem where I was raised.

At the age of ten I started designing clothes and asked my parents to give me the opportunity to take private lessons at seamstress and designer. While studying I began sawing my own cloths. Thus, since I was a teenager I have designed, cut and sewed my own clothes. My designs arouse various, usually encouraging responses from my friends.

After completing my army service I participated in an image building course provided by the Work Ministry, from which I grew into the Shenkar professional school of design. Here I developed an expertise in textile design.

The decision to distinguish and learn the fabric from which clothes are made lies in the material fascination as well as believe that the material alone holds the essence of any cut design. Therefore, this is the domain for ones creation and ability to break new grounds.

During my four years at Shenkar – the high school of design and engineering – I have invested all my effort in textile design, studying all its various possibilities. After two years at this wonderful institution, I have decided to focus on fabric printing. This led me to enhance my concrete expertise working in factories in Israel and India.

A year ago I have made a dream come true; I have established the Textile Workshop in Israel.

The idea behind the workshop is to enable me as a creator and fabric designer, to form my own unique models for other designers, private orders and the general textile industry in Israel and around the world. The work itself is intriguing since it envelopes processes where I can investigate the unlimited possibilities of material and design while develop new methods and invent new materials.

While setting up the workshop I have come to an understanding that there is true a need for fashion designers to have a space which will provide design, consultation and produce services. A place where one can make special and extraordinary designs in small quantities. The workshop will fill this need offering an intimate space where dreams come true. A place for investigating together and alone the qualities of cloth and creating new ones. A place where one learns the textile realm and techniques. A place for meeting other designers.

As an artist and textile designer I have always integrated teaching in my life, instructing courses and creative workshops in printing, embroidering, product design and recycling materials. Therefore currently, the Textile Workshop incorporates courses for designers as well as art and aesthetic lovers.