Handmade One-of-a-Kind Ketubahs

Nishima created these custom Ketubahs for couples celebrating their weddings or anniversaries

“Creating custom Handmade Ketubahs is one of my favorite jobs as an artist. I work closely with you to create a work of art that reflects your individual and shared passions. The possibilities are endless as I truly enjoy challenges!” Please call to discuss the process.

Prices range between $600 and $1800, click on each ketubah image for sample pricing and a description of the media and process. Please allow at least 4 weeks but 2-3 months preferably.

All sizes and dimensions are possible for your Handmade Ketubah. The largest Nishima has made is 27″ x 37″ and the smallest is 16″ x 20″. Her preferred size is 22″ x 30″.

: Kiss & Places We Love

: Broken Vessel, Tree of Life

: Mystical Jerusalem

: Sunset with Quote

: Jewish Family Tree

: Forest Sunset

: After the Concert

: Nobility

: 3 Cities and a Clock

: Lovers and Angels

: Covenant

: A Kiss Like Wine 1

: Sacred World

: Aloha

: A Single Flame

: Blue and Gold

: Celebrating Together

: A Kiss Like Wine 2

: Abstract Figures and Synagogues

: Eternity

: Torah Scholars

: Kiss with Calla Lilies

Art Ketubahs are fine art with ketubah texts as part of the background. Personal Ketubahs are designed around the couples’ lives, interests, stories, and significant symbols. Often Handmade Ketubahs combine elements from both Art and Personal Ketubahs, sometimes with hidden symbols in the artwork.

This gallery of one-of-a-kind commissioned ketubahs showcases a wide range of Nishima’s styles and media. Watercolor paintings glow with rich, saturated colors. Torn paper collages combine texture, depth, and complex color combinations. Oil and acrylic paintings bring a taste of traditional art. Nishima loves both realism and abstraction and specializes in combining them.

: Flags and Horses

: Our Precious Love

: Places We Love

: Lovers’ Knot

: Surrealism

: Growing Together

: Geometric Border

: Klee Figures on Ocean

: Quilt

: Klee Figures, Heaven and Earth

: Window on Our World

: Klee Figures, Symbols of My Heart

: Places and Roses We Love

: Klee Figures, Symbols of My Heart 2

: Trees, Chagall, Art & Judaism

: Candle Gazing

: Family Land

: Klee Figures

Writing in Hebrew and English can be laser burned into painted wood, hand-written with metallic inks that sit on top of colorful backgrounds, printed with elaborate fonts and integrated into the original art seamlessly, or hand-lettered in calligraphy on vegetable parchment paper.

: Blessing Hands

: Blue Green

: Three Sisters

A popular framing option for handmade ketubahs is wood framing with no glass. Ready to hang and archival: several layers of UV spray; sealed with matte medium or wax varnish (for original watercolors).

: The art is attached to thin birch plywood

: Stained wood strips create a box frame