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The Israeli textile and illustration designer Reouth Erez, who is based in Tel Aviv, has a passion for combining literature, philosophy and art, along with a practical design vision. This creative combination is clearly seen in Reouth's Ekphrasis project. Ekphrasis or ecphrasis, comes from the Greek for the description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical exercise, often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined. In ancient times, it referred to a description of any thing, person, or experience. The work comes from the Greek 'ek' and 'phrasis', 'out' and 'speak' respectively, and the verb 'ekphrazein' "to proclaim or call an inanimate object by name." In her Ekphrasis textile project Reouth wanted to actually 'revive' classical texts (poetry) from different places and times (eg: Edgar Allen Poe, Pushkin, the Israeli poet Yehuda ...

The designer and artist Lidija  Seferović  who is renowned for eclectic designer scarves and textile art on silk. Born and raised in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Lidija  Seferović  expresses her creativity through paintings on silk in the form of eclectic designer scarves and textile art - everything is hand-drawn by Lidija in her London studio. Having always enjoyed drawing and art, even in an abstract sense, Lidija enrolled at the Luka  Sorkočević  Art School of Dubrovnik before embracing her love of fashion at the State School of Fashion Design in Stuttgart , Germany. Then moving to London, Lidija continued her studies at the London College of Fashion where she received a BA in Womenswear, after which she pursued a career in fashion, in which she has designed, illustrated and embroidered for the likes of Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy, Bruce Oldfield, and Ralph & Russo. Classically trained in portraiture, figure drawing and sculpture, both Li...