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I Create Weaves That Represent Dreams And Stories

I have been sewing and crafting since I was little because my mother used to do it all the time. I learned from her, the power of creating things with my hands, and constructing something beautiful with just a few materials and creative ideas.

I remember my mom weaving when she would wait for me during my piano classes when I was a little girl. Later on, she taught me all the weaving skills and I did my first tapestry when I was 11 years old: a quirky little elephant standing on a fuzzy field of silky flowers. It started as just a hobby with my mom, I never got any real formal education on how to do this kind of unique art when I was a kid, and I never thought it would be what I wanted to do with my life. Time passed, and I still cannot believe this art medium turned out to be my full-time job.

Weaving for me is like daily meditation, a need. As I’m weaving, I usually go crazy jumping on many diverse ideas at the same time as a distracted butterfly. I try to make fast sketches and secure some of the colorful art combinations that suddenly pop on my mind, as fast as possible. Sometimes while I’m on a walk I get some forms, shapes, and thoughts. Sometimes I imagine and interpret a song, or a smell or a landscape in a more synesthetic way. Sometimes I dream about certain textures. I’ve always been a little drawn by the concept of synesthesia, a mix of impressions that gets you carried away bringing you to an involuntary secondary sensory pathway. Wassily Kandinsky, the father of abstraction, was a synesthete, always trying to evoke sound through color and shapes, and his beautiful art always been a huge inspiration for me.

With my weaves I try to seek the pleasure between the relationship of a tactile versus visual synesthesia, touching colors, listening textures, tasting shapes, perceiving colors represented by certain shapes, and vice versa. But especially, my purpose is to share this experience with everyone else and give you some colorful goosebumps.

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I Create Weaves That Represent Dreams And Stories

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Judit Just is a textile artist raised and born in Barcelona, Spain, but she currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina where she moved in 2013 and where she develops her textile’s brand, known by Jujujust. She studied fashion design, sculpture and textile art, where she specialized in weaving and embroidery. She grew up surrounded by textiles and actually learned weaving craftsmanship through her mom when she was little. She takes some old weaving techniques and gives it a twist using vibrant color combinations and a bunch of beautiful vintage yarns and threads. Follow me on instagram: _jujujust_

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My name is Aelita and I have been an Editor for Bored Panda since 2019. I spend my days working with my amazing team and making articles the best they can be. Fantasy and magic have always ruled over my world, from movies to TV shows, to Video Games to tabletop games like Dungeos and Dragons, I try to find magic in every part of my life. Writing is a big part of me too, I hope to publish a fantasy novel one day. I also enjoy playing guitar and singing, as music always help me to get in a great mood. I have an adorable German Shepherd named Hela and we get into all kinds of adventures together.

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