- Object Name:
- Torah Binder
- Place Made:
- Germany or Bohemia (Czech Republic)
- Date:
- 1778 (date of inscription)
- Medium:
- Linen: block printed
- Dimensions:
- 8 × 141 in. (20.3 × 358.1 cm)
- Credit Line:
- The Rose and Benjamin Mintz Collection
- Accession Number:
- M 97
Not On View
A professional block printer stamped the motifs and lettering on the border and central panel of this binder. Block-printed textiles were popular in eighteenth-century Europe, where printers strove to improve methods to compete with imported Indian goods. Some Hebrew letters in the inscription have crowns above them, indicating abbreviations.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.