#jewish textiles

[umabloomer]

19th century German crochet tallit katan from the Magnes Collection at UC Berkeley

#textiles #jewish textiles #crochet #jewish #magnes collection

[yeoldegodzilla]

Medieval Torah ark curtain featuring Godzilla

#medieval #godzilla #hebrew #torah #textile #Jewish

[gliklofhameln]

Torah ark curtain by Simhah, wife of Menahem Levi Meshullami.

From Venice, 1680/81. Embroidered with silk and metallic thread; metallic fringe. 216.1 × 140.1 cm.

This is an extraordinary Torah curtain because of its impressive size, beautiful workmanship, and unusual iconography. The dedication at the bottom reaffirms the significant role played by Italian Jewish women in the creation of synagogue textiles, even among very wealthy and prominent families such as the Meshullami, one of the first Jewish families to settle in Venice.

What is unusual is the detailed representation of Jerusalem, unique in Torah curtain iconography, but common on another type of seventeenth-century Italian Judaica, decorated ketubbot. Since the Italian Jewish marriage ceremony includes the recitation of Psalm 128, which mentions Jerusalem, and remembrances of the city's destruction conclude every Jewish wedding, depictions of the city were appropriate to the decoration of the contracts displayed at the ceremony, creating an iconographic link between two forms of Judaica prominent in the lives of women.

#jumblr #judaism #judaica #jewish textile arts #torah curtain #italy #simhah meshullami #myposts #jewish women

[femmetransman]

My dress and nails from the Pride events that I worked last weekend.

The dress is made out of fabric from Twisted Needle Textiles (currently changing management and will have a new name soon, but can still be found on facebook), and the nails are done with holotaco and stamps from Maniology.

I worked booths for my job, the Colorado State Public Defender. We educated people about their basic civil rights, and some queer legal history. For example, did you know that on the night of Stonewall, the police had a warrant for the illegal sale of alcohol, which allowed them to enter the Stonewall Inn and arrest people for crossdressing.

Happy Pride!

#trans man #lipstick #nails #jewish #trans #jewish trans man #transgender #make up #ftm #ftm femme #femme ftm #femme trans man #trans pride #happy pride 🌈 #pride nails #pride month #merfolx #mermaids #twisted needle textiles #sewing adventures #dresses with pockets #handmade dress

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Weaving sample by Otti Berger, 1932-37, Croatia. Otti was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.

#weaving #textile fragment #1930s #antique #jewish

[winteringart]

A quilt commission for @esthersjumblrblog, showing a test run by my lovely cat. Used Cathy Pearlmutter's paper piecing pattern! If you liked this, please check her stuff out too.

IMAGE ID: Three pictures of a naturally dyed quilt. The first picture shows the top, with the Hebrew alphabet in six rows. The first row only has two letters in it but the rest are four letters each. The squares with the letters in them are different colors, some are red with blue lettering, some are greenish-blue with orange lettering, some are yellow with red lettering, etc. The rows connecting the blocks are mostly shades of brown, with random yellow, pale orange, red, and green thrown in there. The binding is pale yellow. The second picture shows the back. The backing is mostly pale pink, with slightly darker spots in a design of a pomegranate in front of an etrog. The third picture shows a close up of the bottom right quarter, with a tabby cat sitting on it looking up at the camera. The colors are brighter and clearer in that photograph. END ID.

#my quilts #quilts #quilting #textiles #fiber arts #quilt #naturally dyed #natural dye #natural dyers of tumblr #fibers #jewish art #jumblr #jewish quilts #jewish quilters #jewish #aleph bet #hebrew #image described

[opencommunion]

19th century embroidered Shabbat table cloth from Saqqez, Iran, with text from Psalm 23 and Pirkei Avot 3:3 and 6:4: "If three have eaten at one table and have spoken over it words of Torah, it is as if they had eaten from the table of the Omnipresent, Who is blessed, as the verse says: He said to me, ‘This is the table before the Lord.’” “Bread dipped in salt shall you eat, water in small measure shall you drink, on the floor shall you sleep.”

#textiles #jewish #central asia

[softness-and-shattering]

I find myself looking down at my crochet wip like

I am creating this

I am MAKING FABRIC FROM YARN

I am CREATING A MATERIAL GARMENT FROM STRING MADE FROM WOOL

IT IS COMING INTO EXISTENCE BY MY WILL AND MY OWN TWO HANDS

THIS IS FUH-KING INCREDIBLE

I AM LIKE G-D

Like literally. Like literally made in His Its Their image to create to be able to create

Im not usually super religious I dont even know if I believe in gd 100% of the time

But there is something so human and so spiritual about textile work. This is the stuff we've been doing since almost the very beginning. Collecting and washing and twisting and shaping and passing it onto the next person to complete the next stage down the supply chain till it lands in my hands and I crochet twist weave it into FABRIC into the shape of a GARMENT little by little by little because I sure cant do wow this giant project in only 3 hours or whatever it takes me forever but one day i will take this garment formed by my hands and I will WEAR IT and I will BE WARM and hopefully FASHIONABLE and itll be a bit misshapen because its my first big project and it took me a while to get the rows working evenly but HOLY SHIT CREATION IS AMAZING I AM MA K I N G SOMETHING with my haaannndndssssssssssss

#idk even know how to tag lol #awe at the universe and at humanity #crochet #mine #also im Jewish please dont bring xtian stuff onto my post this is explicitly NOT about jesus #textiles #do not bring jesus into this thanks #bli eyn hara

[basalt-havic]

I think it’s stupid that people credit Henry Ford with the creation of the American weekend. Because not only is it false, but it’s about as correct as saying landlords “provide” housing

#except it’s time instead of space like housing #also like two decades before he “made weekends #textile mills were closed Saturday and Sunday #bc Saturday for Jewish sabbath #and Sunday for christian sabbath

[panicinthestudio]

Woven cultures, the complex history of an Ottoman carpet, October 9, 2022

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design, c. 1575–90, silk (warp and weft), wool (pile), cotton (pile), attributed to Turkey, possibly Istanbul, 172.7 x 127 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) 

 A conversation with Dr. Ariel Fein and Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Smarthistory

This carefully drawn, subtly colored carpet is among the finest of all Ottoman weavings. One of the earliest carpets to include a triple-arched gateway, its design probably originated in the Ottoman imperial workshop. The hanging lamp in the center arch recalls verses from the Qur'an that liken God to the light of a lamp, placed within a niche. The combination of this carpet’s imagery, high quality, and relatively small size suggest that it was used as a prayer rug by a member of the Ottoman courtly elite.

Related link:

Link to Discover Carpet Art Website

#cultural amalgam #ottoman empire #Islam #Islamic #art #art history #textile art #Jewish #Judaism #pattern #iconography #symbolism #16th century #The Met #Metropolitan Museum of Art #Museum with No Frontiers #Turkish #design #diaspora #Alhambra Decree #15th century #migration #forced migration #spanish jews #Architecture #Alhambra #lantern #light #flowers

[umabloomer]

A passover towel from Germany c. 1903-4 and embroidered ribbons from Poland, 1915

From The Jewish Museum, NYC

#Jewish embroidery #jewish textiles #jewish #textiles #embroidery

[regrettablewritings]

Was I initially incorrect? Perhaps. But you know what? No, fuck it,

TREAT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY ALIVE GOOD, TOO.

YOU WERE FOCUSED SO ENTIRELY ON THE FETUS SITUATION THAT YOU DIDNT EVEN ADD ON “But yeah, we still need to consider the lives of those already present. There needs to be a plan developed for those who find themselves with children they do not want to or are not prepared to have, for children they have that are born with conditions they are unable to provide for, and so on.”

OR

“But even beyond the subject of abortion, we do need to practice being kinder to our neighbors. The Christian thing would be to love thy neighbors, and we need to remember that, even when it isn’t easy.”

You were just so bent on proving you could Google a damn scripture and throw in your Little Ms. Two Pennies crap that you missed the whole point.

God doesn’t give out sticky stars because you memorized passages in catechism. If He’s really as loving as we hope He is, then I’d like to believe He’d be a lot more sympathetic towards someone who actively tries to love and be concerned for others, NOT somebody who obsessed over how they look to Him.

If my big sin is that I met some genuinely nice queer people or a wonderful person who had an abortion at some point in their life and thought “I want to make sure this person is healthy and never in danger or forced to do something they do not want to or are ill-prepared to do” and I’m damned for it, or they’re damned for it, but people who went around back-patting themselves for repeating words without considering what they meant and blindly condoning and enabling harm go free, then the entire situation is fucked.

TREAT PEOPLE ALREADY PRESENT WITH THE CONSIDERATION YOU HAD WHEN YOU DID ALL THOSE GYMNASTICS TO MISS THE POINT, YOU SANCTIMONIOUS COPROLITE.

#was I incorrect? mayhaps #but you actively tried. and you failed. you missed the assignment #kindly pack your things you failed the fucking exam #you can feel good all you want about having ‘spread the word’ #but there is more to being a human who happens to be Christian than just parroting scripture and going to church #ACTUALLY BE A GOOD PERSON AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT WOULD ENTAIL #and you know what? Heck some of how we’re to treat others listed in the Bible is so out of context & out of date #that some of THOSE arguably can’t apply either! #you wanna fucking pick n choose so much then you better not be mixing textiles or eating pig or shellfish boo #‘those are Jewish practices of the Old Testament —‘ Where is Leviticus located? #roe v wade #abortion #reproductive rights

[gliklofhameln]

Four pieces of a chuppah from Heves, Hungary. 1876.

The Hebrew inscriptions reads: "The sound of mirth and gladness"; "The voice of bridegroom and bride" (Jeremiah 33:11); "Donated by Asher Bloy and his late wife Chaya, from here, the Holy Community of Heves"; "The year  [5]636 [1876]”.

#jumblr #judaism #chuppah #kadosh kadosh kadosh #hungary #jewish textile arts #myposts

[femmetransman]

Pics of my recent outfit that I wore to the Dresden Dolls concert.

I made the dress myself with fabric from Twisted Needle Textiles (if you want any fabric the store is closing this month so get your orders in soon!).

We waited after the show with the hopes Amanda Palmer would sign an old poster of mine. My mom got me this poster when I was too young to go to the show, and it only had Brian Viglione's signature, and it also had my deadname on it. After some tense waiting, and some mis-information from security, Amanda came out and was just hanging out. She was happy to sign my poster with my new name, and she connected with my mom as well.

Apparently it ended up being a meaningful connection for her as well, because she posted about us the next day!!!! Amanda Palmer is my favorite singer of all time, so its incredible to have had this exchange.

#ftm #transgender #trans man #lipstick #trans #eye makeup #femme trans guy #femme trans man #jewish trans man #the dresden dolls #amanda palmer #brian viglione #penis fabric #twisted needle textiles #personal

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Weaving sample by Otti Berger, 1932-37, Croatia. Otti was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.

#weaving #textile fragment #1930s #antique #jewish

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Disturbers Are Fined As Sequel To Strike,” Toronto Star. January 20, 1931. Page 5. ---- One Goes to Jail and Will Be Recommended for Deportation ---- Ten persons who are alleged to have taken part in the disturbance on Spadina Ave. at Adelaide Street on Friday, appeared before Magistrate Browne in police court yesterday, charged with disorderly conduct.

Hymie Shaparaga deemed he was a vagrant and pleaded not guilty to maliciously breaking a window on the property of the M. Rubinof Dress Company at 216 Spadina.

‘There was supposed to be a needle-worker’s strike on,’ an officer of Claremont police station testified. ‘The accused was with about 30 others. He stepped back opposite the window, raised his elbow and drew it back, breaking the glass. I was standing three or four feet away from him. He did it deliberately and willfully. It was no accident.’

‘You are going to jail for 60 days on each charge and I will recommend deportation,’ the magistrate told Shaparaga, who is a native of Russia.

Abraham Rose was fined $5 and costs or 30 days for creating a disturbance. An officer testified that Rose accosted a man entering 116 Spadina Ave. and called him a ‘scab.’ Rose denied it.

‘He called a man a dirty scab,’ an officer testified against Benjamin Bederman who was fined $10 and costs.

Minnie Mann pleaded not guilty to being a vagrant and assaulting Max Cowitz on Spadina Ave. on Saturday. Cowitz testified that she had struck him on the face and called him a ‘scab’ and a ‘low lifer.’ He had worked in the same shop with accused until the strike was called.

Miss Mann declared that Cowitz was the aggressor and had spit in her face so she slapped him. She was fined $10 and costs or 30 days.

#toronto #needle workers #textile workers #strike #strike violence #scabs #picket line #picketing #assault #broken windows #dressmakers #working class struggle #sentenced to prison #toronto jail #deportation from canada #russian immigration to canada #jewish canadians #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada