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Mappah
Title: Mappah
Date: [1849] [Dedication]
Creator: Astro, wife of David Moses (?)
Format: H86; W82 cm; silk
Source: The Jewish Museum of Greece
Rights: Society of Epirotic Studies - The Jewish Museum of Greece
Publisher: The Jewish Museum of Greece
Subject: Textile, synagogual textile, embroidery, Torah, Jewish Community of Ioannina
Description: Tik (Torah case) wrapper, carmine red silk centrepiece with repeated floral ornament embroidered with silk threads, with dedicatory strip in tablet weaving technique, donated by Astro, wife of David Moses, to the New Congregation, Ioannina (original border stripes replaced by synthetic fabric in second half of the 20th century).
DataProvider: The Jewish Museum of Greece
Provenance: Ioannina
Type: text
Provider: Judaica Europeana, Greece
