Hadar Knitted Black Gartel 14 Through 26 Strings

The Hadar knitted gartel in black, a plain and practical band without the worked border of the handmade knitted line. It is the gartel that gets worn rather than the one that gets kept for Yom Tov, and it is priced to be replaced when it eventually wears out instead of being nursed along.

Widths are given directly in strings: 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 26. Fourteen and fifteen are narrow enough to fold into a jacket pocket for mincha and maariv, while 22 through 26 give a fuller band suitable for Shabbos. Price steps up with the width, so a man who wants both a weekday and a Shabbos gartel can take two from this range for less than one silk gartel costs.

This is a sensible first gartel for a bar mitzvah bochur. He will not be careful with it, he will outgrow the width he starts with, and there is no reason for that lesson to be an expensive one.

• Size: 14 Strings, 15 Strings, 16 Strings, 18 Strings, 20 Strings, 22 Strings, 24 Strings, 26 Strings

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