TAL TREISTER
PROJECTS
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COW POTATO
COW POTATO
When your couch transforms into a cow and your carpet becomes a 3D puzzle or a totem pole, a playful and imaginative experience is created. This project presents the possibility of playing with vibrantly colorful three-dimensional textile objects. The objects are made of felted foam and serve as functional furniture, but they are not rigid. The project offers a new language of furniture design from the perspective of a textile designer who explores material and breaks boundaries between furniture, sculpture, and play.
Materials: Wool fibers and foam
Photographer: Roni Cnaani
Video Photographer: Dor Revivo
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CITY GIRL
CITY GIRL
As a child growing up in Tel Aviv, I always wondered who my neighbors were. Years after, when I experienced community life in a kibbutz, I understood that there is another way of living.
Technique: Manual Knitting Machine
Photographer: Shir Gelber
People that live in apartments, share a building.
They share the sewage, They walk the same morning trail
And yet, they are strangers
not asking, not looking, not knowing.
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ARS KNITTING
ARS KNITTING
An ars poetica poem examines the role of poets themselves as subjects, their relationships to the poem, and the act
of writing.
In this project the artist described a part of herself with textile. She knitted on her manual knitting machine while listening to a song that she wrote and recorded. That song served as her design reference and inspiration.
Photographer: Shir Gelber
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MASKIT VS TAL
MASKIT VS TAL TRESTER
Maskit was the first fashion house established in Israel, in 1954, and has been renewed in the past few years. This knitted outfit was created in collaboration with Maskit and it symbolizes a renewal of tradition using sustainable and modern technology.
Technique: fully fashion, industrial knitting machine
Materials: cotton, wool and polyester sewing thread.
Photoagrofar : Roni Cnaani
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ABOUT ME
MY AYA GRANDMA
MY AYA GRANDMA
Aya disappears
But her eyes always remain the same
Sometimes she forgets
Sometimes she doesn't recognize
But she is always dressed in her full glory
When I was a little girl
Her wardrobe was the most luxurious playground
and still is
Photografer: Achikam Ben Yosef
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Hello my name is Tal and I’m a textile artist and designer. Passionate about exploring new creative horizons.
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I hold a B.A. in Textile Design, which has laid a solid foundation for my artistic and technical skills. Following my graduation, I completed an internship at Trend Union in Paris, where I gained valuable experience in trend forecasting and textile innovation.
I am currently pursuing my Master's degree in Furniture Design at Politecnico di Milano, expanding my expertise in product and spatial design.
My work has been recognized internationally—I was selected as one of 20 finalists out of 350 applicants worldwide for the 2024 Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize, as part of New York Textile Month. In 2023, I interned with Mattel's Barbie Soft Goods Design Team, where I learned to combine design excellence with playful creativity while gaining invaluable experience with a leading global brand.
Education and awards
2025 /M.DES furniture design/ Politecnico Di Milano
2025 / Trend Union/ Edelkoort Inc. Internship, PARIS
2024 / Finalist Dorothy Waxman International NY Textile Prize
2024 / M.DES design scholarship Shenkar College of Engineering
and Design
2023 / MATTEL toy company Internship, Soft goods design team in the Barbie department, LOS ANGELES
2022 / Delta Galil Excellence Scholarship in
the category of originality and daring
2020-2024 / Textile design student at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
2015-2019 / B.A Psychology from Tel Hai College
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