Want to have a nice tallit for a Bar/Bat Mitzvah but want to watch your budget? There are ways to tweak a design to fit different price ranges. Here is an example. A customer really liked my navy and wedgewood blue tallit on white dupioni silk but asked if I could customize it to bring the price down. I had a remnant piece of white silk noil that I could make into a 15 1/2 inch tallit, instead of my usual 18-20 inches. For the atarah, I embroidered just the last two words of the tallit blessing -- Lehit'atef batzitzit. For the bag, I made a simple foldover bag instead of a zippered one. This worked out well for everybody: I was able to use my remnant, and my customer got a tallit that she likes at a price that she felt comfortable with.
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| 20-inch wide tallit with the full tallit blessing. |
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| 15 1/2 inch tallit with short embroidery. |
This tallit ended up having quite a story. The family traveled to Croatia to celebrate their simcha in an old synagogue, actually more of a museum since most of the
Jews were killed or moved after WWII. There hasn't been a life
cycle event in that building since WWII. The mother just sent me a picture and said: "Your tallit covered our son in the first Bar Mitzvah at that synagogue
since 1939. The Torah hadn't been opened in thirty years, and most of the
remaining twenty-five members of the synagogue had never seen the inside of their
Torah. It was all we hoped it would be."
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