Beschreibung:

A HAND-WOVEN LINEN TORAH BINDER, multi-coloured silk embroidery, mainly in brown, green and purple, done in stem-stitch, made of four pieces joined together by an openwork seam in purple and beige, the edge finished with a blanket-stitch in the three main colours, decorated with a lion passant beneath the name Aryeh, a pitcher as symbol of the boy being a Levi , a mermaid and a fish and a crowned open Torah scroll inscribed in Hebrew, the letters are filled in with floral motifs, the tops of the letters lamed are worked in the form of flowers, one in the form of a human face as symbol for good deeds, in spite of many old repairs, a very decorative example, probably Germany, 1714, 341 x 16 cm. See illustration