Custom Embroidered Atarah in White Crushed Velvet with Swarovski Crystals (#1)

White crushed velvet as the ground, white thread embroidered over it, and Swarovski crystals set into the work — design #1 is a tonal piece, white on white, where the pattern shows through texture and sparkle rather than through colour contrast. Crushed velvet has that broken, shifting nap that reads differently depending on how the light hits it, so the band never looks flat along its length.

This is a custom atarah, which means it is built for the tallis it is going on rather than pulled off a rack. It sits on the collar of a white tallis, and the whole intention of the white-on-white treatment is that it belongs there rather than sitting on top as a separate object. The crystals do the work that a coloured thread would otherwise have to do.

The obvious buyer is a chosson: a new tallis, a new atarah, and the one day where the tallis is genuinely being looked at by a room full of people. Families ordering for a chuppah tend to settle the tallis, the atarah and the bag at the same time so nothing is left to the final week.

• Malchut design #1
• Material: Velvet

Sold by Judaica Square, Lakewood NJ. Free shipping on orders over $75. Returns within 15 days.