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Article: Tallit bags thread together families.(WEDDING & CELEBRATION GUIDE)
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- The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2008
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Every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., a group of eight mothers and grandmothers meets at Lani's Needlepoint in Studio City, Calif. There, under Lani Silver's expert guidance, they have cumulatively needlepointed more than 20 tallit bags, one diagonal, tied-down or decorative stitch at a time.
"It's really the big bar mitzvah gift now," said Silver, who sells more than 100 tallit bag canvases a year, half of them her own designs.
"Making the tallit bag for [my daughter] Jackie was a pleasurable part of the whole bat mitzvah process. Every stitch has love in it," said Wendy Farkas, a class member who has completed two ...