Devon, I couldn't get the Met accession number to work in the search, but since you mentioned off-line that you think it's part of a chuppah, I'll leave it at that. I've seen Herschel Shanks's article. I always wondered how people identify an abstract piece of lace as "Jewish," let alone as part of a particular object. Lace seems to be one of the most anonymous crafts around! Do museums base this on the statement of the donors? I have no idea. These lace tallit bits are something else to put on my to-do list of possible research subjects. ;-)
Avital On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > See also www.metmuseum.org, search 38.19.5 > There are a-m, all considered Hebrew Ritual items. > See also, The World's Oldest Tallit? > An occasional paper of the American Jewish Historical Society/Herschel > Shanks, additional copies available from the Biblical Archaeology Society. > Although not about lace, there is a round-up of lace items including the one > from the V & A and one from the Museum for Applied Art in Vienna, and yet > another thought to be Portuguese on pages 24-27 of the monograph. The ones > at the Metropolitan Museum are mentioned. > Devon -- Blog: http://apinnick.wordpress.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
