what is a glass ketubah

Glass Ketubah is a concept developed by Skip & Illene Dyrda. Typical Ketubot are original drawings or paintings and more often, a print made based on the original drawing or painting into which the appropriate text is placed. Sometimes the text is preprinted, and blank spaces are left in which to personalize the Ketubah, especially when the print is created by offset lithography. Recently, Ketubot are more often printed using the Giclee' process and are more easily personalized since each print is created 'on demand'. And some Ketubot are created entirely by hand, either hand painted, drawn or assembled, such as copper Ketubot.
The Glass Ketubot starts it's life in a kiln but but that's only the beginning. Specifically, the Ketubah is designed by taking shards of decorative glass and fusing them together in a kiln to create what amounts to a background.
This is what you see on the left, as it came out of our kiln. This is the actual glass we use as the basis for the designs.
Once we have a design we really like, it is photographed. That image is then adjusted so that it shows the true beauty of the original glass.
We then embellish that image by adding borders, titles and the text the client chooses. The finished product is printed on archival watercolor paper.
And that's not all.....our customers will also have the option of purchasing an actual glass version of their Ketubah as well as several other products still in developement, such as a matching Mezuzah, matching gift prints, invitations and much more.
So stay tuned.....