Leonard, I'm aware of this piece of lace and have been asked about it before. Honestly, I don't know. A local weaver has told me that there are lace tallit ornaments in the collection of the Israel Museum but I've never seen them.
These pieces are puzzling. Yes, they don't have holes for the fringes but it is conceivable that they were positioned at another part of the four-cornered garment. There aren't too many rules about how tallit ornamentation. The point of the garment is the fringes, but there isn't any point to the ornamentation. Avital On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Leonard Bazar <leonard...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear Avital > > I hope you don't mind another thread on this subject, but there is another > query I've had on tallit lace, and I'd love to have it solved. The V&A has > a square of Italian silk needle lace, dated 1670-1700, described as "Tallit > (prayer shawl) ornament". Its reference is 791-1890, and it is plate 37 in > Clare Browne's "Lace from the Victoria and Albert Museum", > http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O63950/prayer-shawl-ornaments/ on their > web site. It looks as though it should go on the corner, being roughly the > same shape and size as the reinforcement on a modern one, but the centre is > filled in, so you could not push a fringe through it, which I had understood > was the object of the garment (Numbers chap 15 verses 38-9). They seem to > have three or four of them, which would make sense if it is a corner. I did > ask Santina Levey, but she pointed out that Levey could be an Irish Catholic > surname, and was in her case! > > leonard...@yahoo.com thinking that an ornamental tallit bag might be enough > to start on! > -- Blog: http://apinnick.wordpress.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
