Available for purchase

The following are a selection of items that are available for purchase. This is not the full extent of completed pieces. I will post images as time allows.

If you wish to purchase any of the items on this page or have any further questions, please send me an email sj.hand@verizon.net

Lecha Dodi likrat kallah

p'nai Shabbat n'kabalah
Come my beloved towards the bride

let us greet the face of Shabbat

Three nearly identical challah covers are available with the same text and decorative motif.

I painted the borders onto ice blue silk shantung. The lettering is calligraphed and embellished onto the same silk. I then appliqued the centers onto the base fabric. Each of the challlah covers has small variations. let me select one for you.

This challah cover is an appropriate and meaningful wedding gift.

Cost: $200 + 4.99 shipping
International shipping determined by actual cost

Kol Mikadesh Sh'vii -

All who sanctify the seventh day

Challah Cover

SOLD

The text comes from a liturgical poem that is essentially strings of biblical verses about Shabbat strung together.

I hand painted the text onto linen brocade. The linen is further embellished with hand painted scroll work. The text is framed with block printed silk shantung.The edges of this challah cover are bound with gold embroidered vintage grey velvet ribbon.

Cost-$200 +4.99 shipping ( international shipping determined by actual cost)

Lecha Dodi likrat kallah

p'nai Shabbat n'kabalah
Come my beloved towards the bride
let us greet the face of Shabbat

This piece is sold

The text for this challah cover comes from Kabbalat Shabbat, the service we recite to welcome Sabbath. The text makes this challah cover an excellent wedding gift.

I painted the text onto blue-grey silk shantung. the painted border is an exuberant stylized vine.

The border is made out of French upholstery fabric.

Many of the paints I used have been mixed with metallic and pearlized powders. The challah cover looks different in different lights.

Cost: $200 + 4.99 shipping
International shipping determined by actual cost

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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...

The light themed tallit has been shipped!!!

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A Passover loss

My parents bought this tablecloth during their 1955 visit to Israel. It is made out of linen from the first post 1948 flax harvest. The linen is heavy and almost crude. The embroidery is very fine. We used this cloth every Passover until the center wore thin. You can see the cloth on the table in the background of this photo of my parents and nephew My Aunt Sheva bought my mother a replacement cloth. The replacement cloth is made out of a cotton poly blend. The embroidery is crude and the colors not nearly as nice. The old cloth hung in our basement. We used the new cloth and remembered the much nicer original cloth. I loved that my aunt wanted to replace the cloth, I just hated the replacement because it was so much less than while evoking the beauty of the original. After my father died my mother sat me down and with great ceremony gave me all of her best tablecloths. She also gave me the worn Passover cloth and suggested that I could mend it. I did. Year after year ...

sarah in nyc

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