Tag #127367 - Interview #98039 (Izak Sarhon)

I never had any talent for music.  My real hobby was painting.  There was a kind of painting that was called “decorative painting” and it was not done with brushes.  I had a tutor that taught me how to do this.  I applied all that I learned at a job, when I went to Spain and made a living out of it there.  I used to paint/ decorate ties.  They gave me unicolored silk ties and we would paint them, dry them and return them.   We would paint the ties by the dozen.  I would show them the patterns I could paint, they would choose and I would paint the ties accordingly.  At first I was working for luxurious stores, but their orders were always very small.  Those ties were very exclusive.  Then I started doing wholesale work.

If we go back to my childhood, I used to spend all my spare time with this kind of painting.  I painted cushions and handkerchiefs.