Dear Avital I hope you don't mind another thread on this subject, but there is another query I've had on tallit lace, and I'd love to have it solved. The V&A has a square of Italian silk needle lace, dated 1670-1700, described as "Tallit (prayer shawl) ornament". Its reference is 791-1890, and it is plate 37 in Clare Browne's "Lace from the Victoria and Albert Museum", http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O63950/prayer-shawl-ornaments/ on their web site. It looks as though it should go on the corner, being roughly the same shape and size as the reinforcement on a modern one, but the centre is filled in, so you could not push a fringe through it, which I had understood was the object of the garment (Numbers chap 15 verses 38-9). They seem to have three or four of them, which would make sense if it is a corner. I did ask Santina Levey, but she pointed out that Levey could be an Irish Catholic surname, and was in her case!
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