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Marilyn's tallit
Marilyn, an adult Bat Mitzvah, wanted Jerusalem on her tallit. The body is an off white dupioni, and the city is made up of about 30 different snippets of silk and cotton fabric. | |
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Monica's tallit
Monica, another adult Bat Mitzvah, wanted her Torah Portion (2 stories of Moses) displayed on her tallit. The body is a blue dupioni, and the scene is created with cotton and silk applique. |
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Michael's tallit
This is the tallit that started it all. Michael's tallit is an interpretation of his parsha in B’Midbar. The body is a taupe dupioni with rust colored fringe, Read and see more |
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Missy's Dolphin tallit
This tallit was made from a gorgeous dupioni silk (that matched the color of Missy’s eyes), cotton batiks and beads. read & see more |
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Selena's Tallit
Selena's tallit was designed by her mother, and given as a gift by her good friends and godparents. Read and see more |
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Rebecca's tallit
Rebecca’s grandmother called me because she had cancer and knew that she wouldn’t be around for her granddaughters' Bat Mitzvot, and though it was early, ...read more
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Samantha's tallit Samantha is Rebecca’s sister, and her story is the same. She chose an off white duioni, and we created stripes with a watery charmeuse...read & see more | |
Sam's tallit
Sam wanted a man blowing a shofar with notes floating out above Jerusalem. He wanted earth tones, and nothing too bright.
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Emma's Tallit Emma lives locally, so spent a lot of time here designing her own tallit. She knew that she wanted a swirly tree with flowers and butterflies read & see more | |
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Emily's Tallit Emily designed a beautiful brown dupioni tree with appliquéd flowers of various shades of pink cotton prints, all on a gorgeous supple white silk. Her turquoise stripes near the bottom matched her atarah and corners. read & see more | |
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Daniel's Rainbow Tallit Daniel chose his favorite rainbow colors, and designed his tallit long distance through emailing photos. read & see more | |
Jake's tallit:
Jake wanted a traditional looking tallit, but in black, with blue and silver dupioni stripes. read & see more | |
Amelia's Tallit I never met Amelia. Her gorgeous tallit was designed by her grandmother, who came over and... read more | |
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Gary's Tallit Gary's wife wanted to buy Gary a tallit for his birthday, so they came over to look through my stash of fabric and photos. He liked Selena's (see above), but wanted it made a little more masculine. read & see more
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Aaron S. tallit Aaron's tallit is from the Torah Portion B’reshit, and depicts the first 4 days of creation. read more | |
Matthew's tallit
Matthew didn’t like his Torah portion, as it instructed the people to stone those who worshipped the stars and the moon. So, he requested stars and a moon on his tallit, and wanted to express tolerance for other cultures, which we did by adding Asian fabric. read and see more
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Kasirha's Tallit Kasirha's mother found me online from Indiana. She designed a tree of life with different colored embroidered flowers. We kept it very bright and feminine with the various colors of threads and silk dupioni corners. See more | |
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Talia's Tallit Talia had a definite idea of what she wanted on her tallit. Her parsha was about Miriam, and she wanted Miriam on her tallit. She brought me a book with beautiful illustrations, and I used it as a guide to create her Miriam. Read & see more... |
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David's Tallit David wanted a traditional style tallit with his own beautiful color combination. He chose a navy, silver and burgundy with narrow black stripes in between. See more... |
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Justin's Tallit Justin wanted a red and black tallit, and loves checkerboards. So, we designed a stunning red, black and silver tallit with 8 embroidered corners. |
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Evelyn's Tallit Evelyn wanted something very bright and she wanted a dragon. I looked in our midrash for anything about a dragon, but to no avail. I then asked our rabbi what to do. He said "make it, she'll love it!" So I did. Read and see more...
Allie's Tallit Allie's tallit was designed by her parents as a surprise for her. The images were symbolic of her Hebrew name - Areyeh Chaya. The tree of life had 72 leaves (4 x chai) to represent the 4 people in her family. Read and see more... |
Avery's Tallit Avery's mom wrote to me that Avery loved the beach, plaids and the colors pink, green, blue and yellow. I looked online for silk plaids, and found one that had all her favorite colors.... Read and see more... | |
Aaron L.'s Tallit Aaron specifically wanted a man looking at the sunset, standing on a piece of land, and a tree. See more... | |
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Cantor Mark's Tallit Cantor Mark wanted his tallit to say: Sing to God a New Song (in Hebrew). The body is a gorgeous dupioni from Cambodia that matches him and the bima. see more | |
Zak's Tallit Zak really liked Jake's tallit, but wanted his own unique design. So, using Jake's as a base, he changed the colors of silver dupioni to gold, read & see more | |
Hannah's tallit
Hanna wanted a Pomegranate tree on her tallit, as well as a scene depicting her Torah portion, Ki Tavo, read & see more
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Bob's tallitA gift from his wife for their 50th anniversary, Bob's tallit is made from a Cambodian silk of an almost indescribable blue, that fringed a copper color. A copper thread is couched between the stripes.
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Tema's tallit
Tema wanted Noah's Ark on her tallit, to express her love for all animals, though it wasn't her Torah portion. The tallit is a beautiful teal blue dupioni,... read & see more
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Talya's tallit
Talya chose a stunning purple dupioni that fringes black. Then we played with lots of fabrics to find complimentary colors for... read more |
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Daryl's tallit
Daryl wanted a simple but beautiful tallit. She chose a gorgeous olive green silk dupioni, which looked stunning with her eyes, and a complimentary pre-embroidered fabric. We then matched that with a turquoise silk piece for the atarah and corners.
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Ellory's Tallit Ellory's wonderful mother created Ellory's tallit as a surprise. She chose a beautiful embroidered silk fabric that I had, and designed the corners and atarah, using pieces of clothing from her grandmother (Ellory's great grandmother) who had just past away. Read & see more... | |
Adam's Tallit Like his big brother David, Adam wanted a traditional style tallit, but bright and bold. He designed it with turquoise stripes to match a turquoise/navy batik center stripe. Read and see more | |
Deborah's Tallit Deborah's tallit was a gift to her from her congregation, after a brilliant job of being president of the board. She chose a beautiful white silk, and stripes of various silk cut velvets. | |
Brian's Tallit Brian's mom found me online, and told me that Brian wanted a beach scene with mountains and specific nautical animals such as dolphins and crabs ... Read and see more... | |
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Jason's Tallit Jason and his mom came over to look through my "stash" of fabrics, and he loved the red dupioni that fringed black. He also loved 2 of the bright blues. Read and see more... |
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Howard's Tallit Howard came with his wife and daughter (Emily) so that she could pick out fabric for her tallit. While he was here, he said that he still wore the same tallit that he got for his Bar Mitzvah... Read and see more... |
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