Torah binders from Italy were created by wealthy Jewish women who donated them to their synagogue. They were decorated with delicate floral motifs and elaborate stitching; a few are embroidered with dedicatory inscriptions indicating they were produced in honor of their husbands or in💙 memory of a deceased relative. So highly valued was the creation of these beautiful objects for the synagogue that in the sixteenth century the rabbis of Italy introduced a prayer to be recited every Sabbath morning, praising “all the daughte🌜rs of Israel who fashion covers in honor of the Torah.”

Literature

Joseph Green, “Mishpahat trabot,” Sinai 79,1-6 (1976): 147-162.