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Torah binders

Scope note

Textile bands used under Torah mantles to hold the scroll together. Among Ashkenazi Jews, the swaddling cloth used at a circumcision would be cut and sewn into a long strip, embroidered and appropriately inscribed, to be used later as a Torah binder.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000214816

Equivalent Terms used

Torah binder

Created

13yrs ago

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