Embroidered Bris Cover for the Bris Milah Malchut Design #560

Design #560 carries Malchut's embroidered detailing edge to edge, laid out symmetrically so it sits square when it is spread open. It photographs well, which matters more for this item than for almost anything else in the line, because the pictures taken over it are the ones the family looks at for the next twenty years.

Practically, the cover is spread over the infant at the bris and stays with him through the ceremony. There is nothing to adjust and nothing to fasten; it is a single piece of embroidered goods that lies where it is put. Afterward it folds flat and keeps in a linen drawer, ready for the next bris in the family or to lend to a cousin who needs one on short notice.

Two other pieces run in #560 — a challah cover and a tallis and tefillin bag. A family that likes the design can put a set together across the years without hunting for a match: the bris cover for the newborn, the challah cover for the Shabbos of the shalom zachor, the bag for when the boy is old enough to carry one himself.

• Malchut design #560

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