Jewish Threads

This accessible guide for both novice and expert fabric crafters presents more than twenty-five handmade Jewish fabric craft projects from around the United States and Israel and the inspiring stories behind them. With projects for the home and the shul, for celebrating the Jewish holidays, and for various milestones in the Jewish life cycle most fairly easy to make the book weaves together stories of families, celebration, and contemporary rituals surrounding these handmade fabric crafts. These pieces are destined to become treasured heirlooms to be passed from generation to generation. Among the projects showcased in the book are: Torah mantles

Quilted challah covers

A knitted seder plate

Afikomen envelopes

A Tree of Life shulchan cover

Biblical Purim hand puppets

Tallitot

Healing and memorial quilts

Wall hangings for various holidays