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Ivory stitching on aqua green silk.
Banding in sea blue all around the
neckband and corners.
Prayer:
“May your joy of life be a blessing to
those around you”
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Same blessing as set above, but with gold stitching on
ocean blue silk. Typeface is Hebrew script. The corners have eyelet hole embroidered
and punched out for the tzitzit. The matching tallit bag
is on the accessories page.
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Yellow-gold stitching on off-white china silk.
Prayer:
“L'hetataf b'tzitzit”
- (... who commanded us to wrap ourselves in fringes.)
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Gold stitching on bright red wool crepe.
Prayer:
Full blessing for putting on a tallit.
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Royal blue metallic thread on white Dupioni silk. Prayer:
“Asher kidshanu ... lhetataf
b'tzitzit"
(Who commanded us to wrap ourselves in tzitzit)
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Aqua blue thread
on ivory white silk. Lettering is done in Gefen font with
only a satin outline. Beautiful scrollwork at either end
makes this a very soft and elegant atarah. See the tallit
this belongs to here
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The Bat Mitzvah girl's name in gold metallic thread on white
China silk.
Bright red roses adorn each end.
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The Sh'ma embroidered in gold on navy silk.
Translation: “Hear O Israel,
the Lord is Our God; the Lord is One.”
Another Sh'ma in Hebrew script. Pale gold thread
on white silk.
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Another Sh'ma
on black silk -- one with silver metallic and one with gold
metallic lettering.
Matching
corners done in gold metallic on black silk.
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The "Eitz Chayim" stitched in gold metallic on red silk.
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The "Sh'ma" in red on white china silk.
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Prayer: “Adonai y'varech et amo v'shalom.”
Translation: God Will
Bless His Nation with Peace. Embroidered with a blue variegated rayon thread on gold
silk.
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Prayer: “Eheyeh
Asher Eheyeh.”
Translation: I Am that I Am (Exodus
3:16) Embroidered in Hebrew Script. Yellow-gold thread on a muted
striped silk.
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Prayer: "To everything there is a season ....”
Embroidered in dark
lilac thread on pale lilac dupioni silk.
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Prayer: Psalm 30:12 "You have turned for me my mourning
into dancing;
you have
loosed my sackcloth
and clothed
me with gladness" stitched crimson thread on dark purple dupioni silk.
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Inspired by Rabbi Akiva, who did not learn the alef-bet until
the age of 40, this atarah contains all the letters of the
Hebrew alphabet. Stitched in a light brown thread on a
dark ivory silk.
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Part of the Avinu Malkeinu sung on the high holy days.
Stitched in black on red silk.
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“Oseh
Shalom ... Maker
of peace in the heavens, make peace for us.”
Stitched in gold thread
on copper-gold silk. Orange and gold swirl suns complete the set.
Oseh
Shalom in pale gold thread on deep copper silk with matching
corners.
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The
Eitz Chayim stitched in gold thread on black silk.
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Another set
of the “Oseh Shalom” stitched in
rust-orange thread on variegated blue
silk.
This is the
tallit, custom woven on a loom, that the above atarah and
corners were made for:
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The Oseh
Shalom is stitched in tangerine thread on cream silk.
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Psalm 120:2 "My help will come from the Lord, Maker of
heaven and earth." Stitched in gold thread on ivory silk.
Matching corners have simple outline and hole for tzitzit.
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Another from
the Book of Psalms:
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Full blessing for putting on the tallit. Stitched
in purple with a pink outline on lavender silk. The atarah
is banded with a bright pink silk border.
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“Shalom Al Yisrael ... Peace in Jerusalem and all the
World.”
Embroidered in lilac thread on blue silk.
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Eishet Chayil ... First line of "A Woman of Valor."
Embroidered in gold thread on black sheer silk organza using an
outline typeface.
Same
blessing in lilac thread on royal blue silk with matching
corners.
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Psalm 91:11
“He
shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy
ways."
Embroidered in dark sky blue on customer's fabric.
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Book of Isaiah - 12:2 Stitched in white on dark blue wool
crepe. Eight corners for front and back of the tallit.
 The customer
did extensive hand embroidery on this atarah, and this is the
final product:
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“Kol Hanshamah ... " Translation: Let every breath praise
God. Stitched in light gold thread on china white
silk.
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Set of corners for a custom tallit. Pretty flowers
are stitched and different names put on each. Thread for
names and borders is a bright metallic gold.
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Set of corners with Magen David and satin border. These
were embroidered onto antique white silk with gold metallic
thread.
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Custom
atarah given as a birthday gift. The
young man's name and family were embroidered in black
thread on imported
white silk.
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Psalm 40:8 “Az Amarti ...” stitched in powder blue silk thread.
This one
for a special woman!
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And
verse 9 from the same Psalm stitched in black on his
tallit!
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Black wool tallit personalized with man's family name “Baruch
Heschel ... ”
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I made the atarah and stitched the words from Psalm 104:33 as a
gift to my Cantor on his 10th
anniversary with our synagogue. The verse says:
“I
will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God
as long as I live.” The ends are embroidered with music
clefs and small notes are sprinkled around the verse.
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Corners
I have hundreds of
designs to complement the embroidery on the atarah. Below
are just a few examples. If your tallit has a theme, I can
usually find a corner design to match.
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Large silk corners embroidered with
Star of David in pale gold thread.
The fringe was already attached to this lovely shawl!
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Corner
Designs ... just a small sample
Here are a few
other designs that were already stitched out and used on tallit corners.
I have hundreds of designs so you can
choose almost any theme you wish including other Jewish symbols.
The corners can be stitched and then sewn onto your tallit or
embroidered directly onto the body of the tallit. Please
let me know if you want something special.
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