Jewish Threads: A Hands-On Guide to Stitching Spiritual Intention into Jewish Fabric Crafts

by Diana Drew, Robert Grayson

Learn how to make your own Jewish fabric crafts with spiritual intention―venture into a world of creativity, imagination & inspiration. Journey along with talented Jewish fabric craft artists from throughout the United States and Israel as they retrace their steps in the creative process used to make thirty evocative projects. Then tap into your inner creativity by following step-by-step instructions to fashion family heirlooms with your own personal flair. Inspirational and motivational, these projects and stories will resonate with your artistic soul and awaken a desire to hand-craft Jewish fabric keepsakes to pass down from generation to generation. Projects and techniques Quilting • Appliqué • Embroidery • Needlepoint • Cross-stitch • Knitting • Crochet • Felting • Needle felting • Tallitot • Tallit bags • Torah mantles • Challah covers • Seder plate • Afikomen envelopes • Torah table ( shulchan ) covers • Tree of Life & shalom wall hangings • Purim puppets • And more!

Genres: Jewish, Crafts, Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2011