Textile artist Judit Just is known for her colorful tapestries, delicately handwoven using materials like wool, high-quality vintage silk threads, viscose fringe tassels, and cotton threads and cords.
Born and raised in Barcelona, Spain, but currently based in Asheville, North Carolina, Just grew up surrounded by textiles and learned weaving from her mom when she was a little girl. Having studied later fashion design, sculpture, and textile art, she specialized in weaving and embroidery.
“With my weavings I try to seek the pleasure between the relationship of a tactile versus a visual synesthesia, touching colors, listening to textures, tasting shapes, perceiving colors represented by certain shapes, and vice versa,” she shared in an interview with Sarah K. Benning. “But especially, my purpose is to share this experience with everyone else and give them some colorful goosebumps.”
Using old weaving techniques, she adds a contemporary twist to her work by using vibrant color combinations and beautiful vintage threads. “As I’m weaving, I usually go crazy jumping on many diverse ideas at the same time like a distracted butterfly,” she jokes. “I try to make fast sketches and secure some of the color combinations that suddenly pop on my mind, as fast as possible.”
Take a look at some of her original designs in the gallery below:
