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Modern Papercut Ketubah Designs & Custom Ketubah Art

Mazal tov on your upcoming wedding! Let's find you a unique papercut ketubah that will reflect your joy and the beauty of your lives together, adding elegance to your wedding and to your home. Each of these vibrant, layered ketubah designs is lovingly created with the highest archival standards of quality and craftmanship. Be in touch – I will be delighted to create a meaningful, modern ketubah that is just right for you.

Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle in Silver

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Garden Ketubah in Sea Splashes

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Oval in Dusty Blue

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Meadow Ketubah Circle in Opal

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Meadow Ketubah Circle in Sage Green

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle in Sage Green

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Flowery Lace Square Ketubah in Gold

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle in Dusty Blue

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Flowery Flourish Ketubah in Opal

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Adventure Ketubah

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Connection Ketubah

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Friendship Ketubah

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Flowery Flourish Ketubah cut from Dark Plum

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Forest Ketubah in Opal

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Lilac Ketubah Circle in opal

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Garden Ketubah in Sage Green

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Forest Ketubah Square in Light Gray

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Forest Ketubah in Silver

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Forest Ketubah Square in Gold

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Flowery Lace Square Ketubah in Opal

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Oasis Ketubah in Gray

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle in Opal

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle in Gold

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Modern Vine Ketubah in Opal

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Modern Vine Ketubah in Blue Splashes

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle in Sea Splashes

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle in Navy Blue with white text

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle in Rose Gold

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle in Dark Plum

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle in Dark Sapphire Blue

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Oval cut from Dark Plum

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Garden Ketubah in Opal

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Dodi Li Ketubah in Dark Plum

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Wisdom Ketubah

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Oval cut from Dusty Blue

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Lilac Ketubah Circle in Silver

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Garden Ketubah in Gold

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Forest Ketubah in Dark Sapphire

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Flowery Lace Square Ketubah cut from Sea Blue

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Garden Ketubah in Rose Gold

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle cut from Dark Plum

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Garden Ketubah in Gray

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Forest Ketubah in Green

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Forest Ketubah in Metallic Gold

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Garden Ketubah in Sea Blue

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Modern Vine Ketubah in Silver

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Terrace Ketubah in Opal

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Oasis Ketubah in Beige

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle in Joyous Watercolor Blue

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Blooming Tree Ketubah Circle in Gray

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Dodi Li Ketubah in Gray

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Flowery Lace Square Ketubah in Silver

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Forest Ketubah in Dusty Blue

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Dragon Ketubah in White with Opal

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Dragon Ketubah in Blue with Gold

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Dragon Ketubah in Burgundy with Gold

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Dragon Ketubah in Burgundy

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Forest Ketubah in Gray

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Pomegranate Vine Ketubah cut from Silver on Purple

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Lilac Ketubah Circle in Turquoise Splashes

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Flowery Flourish Ketubah in Dark Plum

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Flowery Flourish Ketubah in Bronze

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Pomegranate Vine Ketubah in Silver

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Oasis Ketubah in Dark Plum

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Pomegranate Vine Ketubah in Dark Plum

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Garden Ketubah in Silver

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Lilac Ketubah Circle in Burgundy

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Flowery Delight Ketubah in Opal

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Flowery Delight Ketubah cut from Black

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Terrace Ketuba in Dark Sapphire Blue

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Lilac Ketubah Floral in Silver

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Forest Ketubah Square in Opal

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Forest Ketubah in Gray with White Text

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Lilac Ketubah Floral in Gray with White Text

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Lilac Ketubah Floral in Purple Ombre

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Add Your Initials on a Tree

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Ketubah Rush Fee

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Papercut Ketubahs

Congratulations on choosing a papercut ketubah for your wedding! Papercut ketubah artwork adds meaning and beauty to your modern ketubah experience. Papercut artwork also holds an interesting place in Jewish history and in the history of ketubot.

Ketubot have been essential to Jewish marriages since the first century CE. Jewish law requires that a ketubah document be provided by the groom to establish their obligations in marriage and in case of divorce or widowhood. The traditional halachic ketubah text is written in Aramaic and is signed by two witnesses. These days many couples use the traditional ketubah language and also add an egalitarian perspective by including a modern English text on their ketubah (which is not a direct translation of the Aramaic) as a meaningful expression of their hopes for the marriage. Some couples choose a modern Hebrew alternative to the Aramaic text along with a thoughtful English text (which may or may not be a translation of the Hebrew). Same-sex versions of modern ketubah texts are also now often an option.

Only the text itself is required on a ketubah by Jewish law. And yet, Jewish artists began to illuminate ketubah texts about a thousand years ago. We know that papercutting was used to decorate a ketubah text as early as the 18^th century. And yet, while the Jewish art form of papercutting has been common for quite a while, there wasn’t much papercutting of ketubot until relatively recently. A revival of papercutting as a Jewish tradition took place over the past several decades, with artistic papercut embellishments becoming very popular on modern ketubahs.

The first papercuts we know of were created in China around the time that paper was invented there, in the first or second centuries CE. Papercutting as an art form spread over time from China to Turkey, North Africa, Persia, and Eastern and Central Europe. Jews who lived in these places learned the art from their neighbors. So Jewish papercuts varied in style between different regions. And yet, papercuts made by Jews were also readily identifiable as Jewish because of the Jewish symbols and inscriptions found on them, as well as because of the particular nature of their design.

Typical Jewish papercut ketubahs of the 18^th & 19^th centuries were made by cutting out a design from a folded sheet of paper with a sharp knife, so that a symmetrical design was revealed when the folded sheet was opened. Hebrew texts were often added in calligraphy as a way of expressing our love for the words from treasured Jewish sources. So papercutting was, and continues to be, good for the expression of Hiddur Mitzvah, the beautification of a mitzvah.

By choosing beautiful papercut artwork to decorate your modern ketubah, you are engaging in hiddur mitzvah, and you are celebrating the Jewish tradition of papercutting.