Skip to main content

Two new challah covers, and a bit of news

Today I completed two new challah covers.

 

the text of this one comes from a kavanah/intentional prayer that is recited by some before reciting kiddush.

SAM_0786

I had fallen in love with the straw colored silk shantung with the subtle stripe. I had thought it would be perfect for tallit making, but my clients apparently didn’t think so.

SAM_0787

 

It’s a slightly unusual color palate. I think I may have been influenced by all of the 1920’s sewing books that I have been reading lately. SAM_0788

The lavender velvet border just makes the center sing.

SAM_0789

The aqua velvet binding was a vintage steal I had found at Paron before they moved. I think it was from the 1950’s.

I backed and bordered this piece that I had shown in extreme close up in an earlier post.

SAM_0790

I wasn’t able to get the colors to read properly so will have to make another attempt to take pictures.

 

The text comes from one of the z’mirot liturgical poems that are sung during the Shabbat meals. The theme of this poem in a nutshell is food and redemption.

SAM_0791SAM_0793SAM_0794

And now for the news.

 

Eichler's is a long time Brooklyn based Judaica store. As of this week, they are now carrying some of my challah covers. I’m excited about this new venture and hope that it will be a sucessful one.

Labels:

Comments

  1. Cathy PerlmutterJuly 30, 2013 at 8:49 PM

    Those are absolutely lovely, Sarah. Good luck with your new venture!

    ReplyDelete
  2. YoninaJuly 30, 2013 at 9:00 PM

    Great ideas for challah cover texts and fantastic colors! Yashar Koach on Eichler's -- Hatzlacha Rabba! I bet the synagogue Judaica stores in Manhattan would love your challah covers too.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Sarah JacobsJuly 30, 2013 at 11:16 PM

    Thanks. So far, I haven't done very much retail ( aside from a small stint selling my work at the Jewish Museum).It can be difficult to sell hand made work along side factory made goods. The economics are quite different. This was the first time in a really, really long time that I was approached by someone who was willing to see to it that the pricing was fair to me.

    I was touched by the honesty and real sense of fairness that were part of my discussions with Eichler's. So I look forward to see what this new adventure brings...

    ReplyDelete
  4. AnonymousJuly 31, 2013 at 7:12 AM

    Oh well done Sarah. I am glad for you. I hope it becomes a very good success. But especially that people will appreciate the work, effort and thought that goes into each one.
    Sandy in the UK

    ReplyDelete
  5. Nancy KJuly 31, 2013 at 9:03 PM

    Wonderful! I hope that it's a great success.

    ReplyDelete
  6. California Fiber artist and composerAugust 1, 2013 at 3:55 AM

    These are great. Are they hand painted?

    ReplyDelete
  7. Sarah JacobsAugust 1, 2013 at 7:02 AM

    Yes, each of these challah covers is hand painted.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I love hearing from my readers. I moderate comments to weed out bots.It may take a little while for your comment to appear.

Popular posts from this blog

מְחַיֵּה הַמֵּתִים

  וְנֶאֱמָן אַתָּה לְהַחֲיוֹת מֵתִים: בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְהֹוָה מְחַיֵּה הַמֵּתִים   You are faithful to restore the dead to life. Blessed are You, Adonoy, Resurrector of the dead. That particular line is recited at every single prayer service every day three times a day, unless you use a Reform or Reconstructionist prayer book . In those liturgies instead of praising God for resurrecting the dead God is praised for  giving life to all.  I am enough of a modern woman, a modern thinker, to not actually believe in the actual resurrection of the dead. I don't actually expect all of the residents of the Workmen's Circle section of  Mount Hebron cemetery in Queens to get up and get back to work at their sewing machines. I don't expect the young children buried here or  the babies buried here to one day get up and frolic. Yet, every single time I get up to lead services I say those words about the reanimating of the dead with every fiber of my being. Yesterday, I e...
2 comments
Read more

Connecting with the past

A few months ago I had a craving for my father’s chicken fricassee.  If my father were still alive I would have called him up and he would have talked me through the process of making it.    My father is no longer alive so I turned to my cookbooks and the recipes I found for chicken fricassee were nothing at all like the stew of chicken necks, gizzards and wings in a watery sweet and sour tomato sauce that I enjoyed as a kid.  I assumed that the dish was an invention of my father’s. I then attempted to replicate the dish from my memory of it and failed.   A couple of weeks ago I saw an article on the internet, and I can’t remember where, that talked about Jewish fricassee  and it sounded an awful lot like the dish I was hankering after. This afternoon I went to the butcher and picked up all of the chicken elements of the dish, a couple of packages each of wings, necks and gizzards. My father never cooked directly from a cook book. He used to re...
3 comments
Read more

Food friday - your grandmother's food processor

My grandmother bought my mother this wooden bowl and a chopping knife, known in Yiddish as a hock-messer, soon after my parents got married. Yes, she also got them a dairy set as well. these wooden bowls and chopping knives were a big part of food prep when I was growing up. meatloaf and meat balls were mixed in this bowl. Chopped liver was made in this bowl as well. Sundays we often made chicken salad for lunch made out of chicken left over from Shabbat chopped with vegetables and mayo. That too, was made in this bowl. When I was in college my parents got their first food processor and the chopping bowls were not used as much. Several years ago, my father asked if i would like the bowls and the hock-messers. I was happy to have them. I like the sheer physicality of chopping up a big bowl of stuff into teeny pieces. While the wooden bowls have stood up well to the years of use, the hock-messers had not. The bladed which were bolted into their handles, wobbled. The blades wouldn't ...
9 comments
Read more