Grandma’s Wall

Grandma’s Wall is a nickname for a type of wall decoration style, made with different objects put together, mainly hanged items of different size and material representing generations of a family – a lifetime. Different cultures and styles mishmashed together.

In ancient times, weaving, knitting, and needlework were highly valued and belonged in the world of rulers and authority figures. With time, these high arts turned to traditional folk art, women’s art, made at home and passed down within families from mother to daughter. This art had substantial local, tribal and ethnic features. The People of Israel, exiled for generations in different corners of the world, have adopted motifs and patterns from folk arts and traditions of the ethnic group they lived among, incorporating them into their tradition. Weaving, knitting, and needlework together, were one of these arts. Only in recent times though, the awareness of the importance of these crafts as a material representation of the people’s culture and where they evolved, began rising.