Siddur with Magnetic Closure, Gold Modern Design #298

Gold, in the modern Malchut cover that also runs in brown and green, closed by a magnet rather than a clasp or a zip. The gold here is a warm metallic tone across the whole cover, so the siddur reads as a finished object on a table — there is no embroidery or pattern competing with it.

Practically, the magnetic closure keeps the siddur shut without anything to fumble. That matters more than it sounds: a siddur that stays closed keeps its page edges square and its ribbon in place, and it does not open itself inside a bag. Nusach is chosen at ordering — Ashkenaz, Sefard or Eduth Mizrach — and the cover is identical across all three.

Gold is the colour that gets bought for a simcha table or handed over as a gift, since it looks considered without being fussy. If you are buying several for a family, the brown and green versions of the same #298 cover design let each person have their own without ending up with three identical seforim on one shelf.

• Malchut design #298
• Nisuch: Ashkenaz, Eduth Mizrach, Sefard

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