Ketubah styles
Intricate hand-cut paper, often layered over color.
Papercut ketubahs are made by cutting an intricate design from a single sheet, then layering it over color or gold. It is one of the oldest Jewish folk arts, and the effect is remarkable up close, with light passing through the cuts. Papercut suits couples who love craft and detail.
Jerusalem, Israel
Trained at Jerusalem's Bezalel Academy, Danny Azoulay works in hand-cut paper, painting, and gold leaf to create ketubahs rooted in classical Jewish ornament. His studio has produced marriage contracts for couples on every continent, each one built around detailed papercut borders and luminous color.
Jerusalem, Israel
Jerusalem-born artist Noam Shargorodsky creates handmade ketubahs using oils, watercolors, and 23k gold leaf under the studio name Ketubahome. Her pieces draw on Jewish texts and Israeli landscapes, with Jerusalem, the Old City, and the Western Wall recurring throughout her work.
United States
Nishima Kaplan, the artist behind This is Ketubah, works across papercut, painting, and digital design. Her catalog spans clean modern layouts and intricate cut-paper pieces, giving couples a wide range of styles from a single studio.
United States
Susan Leviton pairs delicate papercutting with soft watercolor backgrounds, often painting scenes of Jerusalem above hand-lettered Aramaic text. Her ketubahs have a quiet, devotional feel and a strong sense of place.
Our guide walks through modern vs traditional, papercut vs painted, and how to match the art to your text.
How to choose a ketubah