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Cloth with embroidered image of tablets in clouds above mountain and city.

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Torah Ark Curtain

Simḥah

1680/1

Cloth embroidered with floral border, Hebrew text across the top, and repeating motif in center.

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Torah Ark Curtain

Temerl bat Hirsch Perlhefter

1685/6

Cushion cover embroidered with Star of David, flowers, and decorative motifs along sides and across middle.

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Cover for Circumcision Cushion

Late 17th or Early 18th Century

Cloth with fringe on bottom, Hebrew text on top and middle, and border of foliage.

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Torah Mantle

1722/3

A stone seal with line drawing of two men facing each other raising one hand toward the other and Hebrew inscription.

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Men on a Bulla of the Governor of the City

Iron Age IIC, 7th–6th Century BCE

Photograph of knotted linen fringe.

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Fringe or Tassel

Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Centuries BCE

Embroidered curtain of columns with crowns on left and right sides and decorative floral motifs throughout, and Hebrew text in top center.

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Torah Curtain from Prague

1697

Cloth circular bag embroidered with radial sections and designs.

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Silk Bag for Eruv Bread

18th Century

Short curtain embroidered with Hebrew text across the top with griffins and crowns.

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Torah Ark Valance

1700

Cloth with embroidered columns on either side, pattern in the middle, and Hebrew text between two lions and crown on top.

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Torah Ark Curtain

Elkana Schatz Naumberg

1724

Three cylindrical embroidered cloth covers, two with crowns on top and one with two finials on top.

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Torah Mantles

1735–1737

Rectangular cloth arranged in two columns embroidered with Hebrew text and small Star of David on right side.

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Linen Torah Binder

Wife of Shimon Soave

17th Century