Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.

New York City, USA, 1978. 141 pp., illustrations: 24 col., 164 b&w, 21.5 × 28 cm. English.

Jewish Museum New York (16 December 1977–27 August 1978)

A significant volume on Jewish textiles. Foreword by Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson. Notes by Cissy Grossman. Introduction by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Two essays: “Jewish Textiles in Light of Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature” (Jules Harlow) and “Fabrics in the Collection of the Jewish Museum” (Milton Sonday). Exhibits displayed according to function: cloths of holiness, prayer, celebration, and festival feasts. Final section explicates iconographic symbols. Basic entries. 255 items.

SYNAGOGUE TEXTILES
TEXTILES

Afikoman covers/bags
Amulets
Blessing after Meals, wall hanging
Carpets/Rugs
Challah covers
Chuppah
Circumcision Torah Ark curtains
Decorative wall hangings
Holy Land souvenirs
Kiddush cloths
Matzah covers/bags
Needlework/Embroidery
Needlework/Embroidery folk panels
Pesach pillow covers
Pesach tablecloths/cloths
Pesach towel covers
Reader’s desk covers
Samplers (needlework)
Shabbat cloths/tablecloths
Suzani
Synagogue banners
Talit
Talit bags
Talit neckband
Tefillin bags
Torah Ark curtains
Torah Ark valances
Torah binders
Torah binders, Italian
Torah mantles
Yom Kippur at Metz wall hanging

Exhibition review: Reif, Rita, “A Rare Feast of Cloth and Stitchery”, The New York Times Sunday edition, December 18, 1977, D31.