Atarah
(Ternopil Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions)
Atarah (diadem) – a tab stitched to tallit gadol.
Atarah is an integral part of tallit gadol and is located on the one of its longitudinal sides serving as a kind of a collar. This tab of rectangular form with rounded edges was made in order to distinguish the upper and outer parts of the tallit from the lower and inside part. Flowers and a lacy ornament are
embroidered on the white fabric with silvery and light-brown threads.
- Museum / institution
- Ternopil Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions
- Inventory number in the institution
- Т - 5932
- unknown
- Production period
- CE
- Technique
- weaving, handicraft, needlework
- Technique, comment
- Spanish strip – Spanish stitch – a method of complicated Spanish embroidery – braiding with a metal thread.
- Religious holiday / lifecycle
- for religious use
- Era
- middle of XIX - end of XIX
- Materials
- thread, fabric
- Preservation condition
- satisfactory
- Restoration
- Restoration is recommended.
- Current location
- on display